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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Debug howto : need help on debugging kio_slave
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-13 9:08:18
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On Monday, 12. November 2001 16:37, David Faure wrote:
> On Lundi 12 Novembre 2001 16:25, Eric Devolder wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > As I'm currently trying to write a kio_slave, I need to use some
> > debugging tools.
>
> See kdebase/kioslave/README
>
> > Regarding the use of KdDebug() method, I'm feeling a little bit confused,
> > as I didn't found any good information about it. I've read somewhere that
> > pressing SHIFT+CTRL+F12 on any kde application would raise a debug
> > window, which is not the case on my environment.
>
> That's very old. This has been turned into a separate "kdebugdialog"
> program, since... a long time ago. If you can find where you read that,
> it'd be good to fix that information ;)
>
> > If someone can indicate me how to get this valuable information... I've
> > also found an application which is into the kdebase package of my
> > distribution, kdebugdialog. Seems to be a mean to adjust what debug
> > output should be taken into account. But I don't know where this output
> > can be seen.
>
> In ~/.xsession-errors if you start X using xdm.
> Or simply restart kdeinit in a terminal, typing "kdeinit", you'll see the
> output there.
>
> > The kio_slave is probably not the easiest application to debug, as it is
> > loaded as a dynamic library. So if someone has some experience with that
> > kind of soft & gdb, I would be *very* happy.
>
> Once it's launched you can break into it with gdb.

And another tip: export KDE_DEBUG=1 before you start kdeinit to get core dumps
of slaves.

Greetings, Stephan
 
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