[sldev] How to debug X server crash?

[Dale Glass]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:29:46PM +0200, Boroondas Gupte wrote:
> http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces/DistroSpecificInstructions#head-48a730f2a3b1cc4497e8507a87ecc55320bdb493
> looks interesting, as it gives you a binary that'll run normal speed, and
> still can give verbose traces. However I don't know how easy that's to do
> for distros other than Gentoo.
Thanks, will check that out

> 
> However your description of the symptoms sounds to me, like the graphic
> card driver might come in, too. I guess it'll be difficult if not
> impossible to get debug symbols into that.
Yeah, darn closed source drivers.

This didn't happen before though. Think there's two possibilities here:
One is that the nvidia driver is buggy, and the other is that SL does
something incorrectly.

Unfortunately, SVN is not nearly fine grained enough to easily find
the point where the change that broke it by binary search. I can try to
search the diffs for pipeline changes and see if I can find the change
by experimentation, but that'll probably take a while.

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