Re: pgadmin 1.6.3 - segmentation fault

[Marcin Zajączkowski <mszpak(at)wp(dot)pl>]

On 2007-06-27 10:50, Dave Page wrote:
> Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> > On 2007-06-27 10:04, Dave Page wrote:
> > > Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> > > > I have installed debuginfo packages for pgadmin, but I'm not sure is it
> > > > enough. The problem is that I can't use any gdb command (like bt),
> > > > because it responses with "Couldn't get registers: No such process."
> > > > (even without debug info there is a generic stack trace).
> > > >
> > > > It usually happens when I try to connect to some database.
> > > Are you starting pgAdmin from within gdb, or attaching to the hung
> > > process? If the latter, please try the former.
> > I already start it with "gdb pgadmin3".
> >
> > On the page: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/DebuggingTips-en.html is
> > written that that could be a bug of gdb 6, but I wasn't able to confirm
> > that.
>
> Hmm, in that case I don't know. This certainly isn't a common problem
> otherwise we'd have seen it before (the database connection code has
> been largely unchanged for years as well).

It looks like a problem with gdb which doesn't allow to fallow tracking 
application after some operation in pgadmin.
I'll try to reproduce that without gdb to see what will happen with an 
application (hang, segment, something else).


> What platform was this again?

Fedora Core 6, i386, wxGTK-2.8.3 (self compiled)


Regards
Marcin