Re: Debugging problems

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  1. When gmc crashes, it often reloads within 30 secs. Using the advice
>     previously posted to this list, I attempted to use gdm to get a
>     stacktrace. Unfortunately, gmc always reloads far quicker than I am
>     able to get gdm to debug it! This is causing quite a problem. Any
>     known ways around this bearing in mind gdm always requires me to be
>     root to execute it and it can only be executed from a gnome session?

Do you mean gdb?

With the debugger you can attach to the gmc running process, cause gmc
to crash, and then debug it.  See the `attach' command in gdb.

  Federico