Re: ddd crash on Red Hat Linux 7.4

[Michael Eager]

Hi Zaiwen --

Third thing to try is to run DDD under GDB, repeat your test, and see 
where (or if) it is crashing.

If it crashes, then you can get a backtrace in GDB.  That might give a 
hint about why it is crashing and possibly answer your question about 
your configuration.  (I see a variety of odd behaviors with DDD on 
CentOS 7.4, the most common being that it stalls waiting for GDB.)

Hope this helps.  I've done very little internal work with DDD and most 
of the problems seem to be in the Motif interface, which is (to me, at 
least) unclear.


On 11/21/2017 12:46 PM, Zaiwen Gong wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thank you very much for the reply.
>
> First, I tried to to do the same operation without DDD, using GDB from 
> the command line:
>
>     #gdb ./simpleProg
>     GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6.1-100.el7
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>     This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".
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>     <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
>     Reading symbols from /cfs/ad/binello/test/simpleProg...done.
>     (gdb) br main
>     Breakpoint 1 at 0x4005f5: file simpleProg.cxx, line 5.
>     (gdb) run
>     Starting program: /cfs/ad/binello/test/./simpleProg
>     in cshrc
>     xterm-256color
>     C
>
>     Breakpoint 1, main () at simpleProg.cxx:5
>     5         int x = 1;
>     Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
>     glibc-2.17-196.el7.x86_64 libgcc-4.8.5-16.el7.x86_64
>     libstdc++-4.8.5-16.el7.x86_64
>     (gdb) p x
>     $1 = 0
>
> so far so good, but the action next (type anything into the debugger at 
> the gdb prompt) is a GUI action and I can't do it on the command line.
>
> Second, I  tried to remove my ~/.ddd directory, but same problem.
>
> I am glad you confirmed that you are using ddd-3.3.12 on CentOS 7.4 
> without crashing. There may be something wrong in my configuration?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zaiwen
>
>
> On 11/21/17 14:58, Michael Eager wrote:
> > Hi Zaiwen --
> >
> > First, try to do the same operation without DDD, using GDB from the 
> > command line.  That will help decide whether this is a DDD problem or 
> > GDB problem.
> >
> > Second, remove your ~/.ddd directory and try re-running your test.
> >
> > If it is any consolation, I run ddd-3.3.12 on CentOS 7.4 without 
> > crashing.
> >
> > On 11/21/2017 10:05 AM, Zaiwen Gong wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am using ddd-3.3.12-20.el7.x86_64 on Red Hat Linux 7.4 
> > > (3.10.0-693.2.1.el7.x86_64).
> > >
> > > I would like to know if it is supported?
> > >
> > > Below is a simple program. It will crash if in ddd I right click on x 
> > > and select print and then later try to type anything into the 
> > > debugger at the gdb prompt
> > >
> > >      #include <stdio.h>
> > >
> > >      int main ()
> > >      {
> > >          int x = 1;
> > >          printf ("%d",x );
> > >
> > >          return 0;
> > >        }
> > >
> > > #To build ....
> > > #g++ -g simpleProg.cxx -o simpleProg
> > >
> > > Has anyone been using ddd in Red Hat Linux 7.4 and encountered the 
> > > same crash?
> > >
> > > I have opened an issue here:
> > >
> > >   * https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?109420
> > >
> > > Any reply will be highly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Zaiwen
> > >
> > > --
> > > Zaiwen Gong
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