Hi Salamandir, On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:49 AM, salamandir <salaman...@hybridelephant.com> wrote: > On Friday, June 10, 2016 12:45:28 AM, Alexander Potashev, an eminent > manifestation of divinity, wrote: > >> OK, then we can't blame last.fm > >> > >> A more direct way of debugging hang-ups is to run the program is > >> debugger and see the stacktrace. Next time Amarok starts hanging up > >> often on your computer, > >> 1. Run amarok in GDB: > >> gdb amarok > >> (wait for GDB to load...) > >> run --nofork > >> 2. When the UI hangs up, go to the terminal where you started GDB and > >> press Ctrl+C to "pause" the amarok process. > >> 3. See the stacktrace: > >> bt > >> 4. Or even better, see the stacktraces for all threads: > >> thread apply all bt > >> > >> A stacktrace will probably show where in the code it has "hung up". > > > > okay, amarok has started hanging up again. i'm assuming that this time it > was because i loaded some new files into my "Music" directory, and something > hung up trying to match the old database with the new files. > > > > so, i decided to try this out. here's what i learned: > > > > running amarok in GDB doesn't work. when i type > > > > gdb amarok > > > > into a console, it starts GDB, but nothing else. if i then type > > > > amarok > > > > i get this > > > > Undefined command: "amarok". Try "help". >
Because you did not what Alexander told you to do, please read again :-) Type the following: gdb amarok (this only starts gdb and now expects you to give a gdb command that runs the abovementioned application, so you have to give the correct gdb command!) run --nofork (this starts the gdb run of amarok with the option --nofork, typing amarok here will do nothing as this is not a gdb command. Remember, you are inside the gdb application at this moment) Regards, Myriam -- Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
