getting stacktrace from a daemon

whoop · 2012-05-03 22:14:49

I am getting a segfault in gvfsd-smb in a reproducable instance... I want to get a stacktraceand tried this using the info on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ing_Traces

I'm not succeeding via running

gdb /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb

I'm thinking this is because it is a daemon that is allready running?
Any help apreciated in how to get stacktrace from the segfault...

Stebalien · 2012-05-03 22:25:36

You can attach gdb to a running process with:

gdb /path/to/program running-program-id

whoop · 2012-05-03 22:54:53

Thanks, this seems to take me a step further. However running the suggested command seems to pause the process altogether...

Stebalien · 2012-05-03 23:19:02

You need to enter 'continue' or 'c' at the gdb prompt. You could also step through the execution with the 'step' command.

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