On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:04:15 -0800 Marc MERLIN <[email protected]> said:
> I found out I can't strace e17 anymore, I get > root# strace -f -p 4750 > attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted > note that this is as root, so it's not the > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope > issue. > > I can strace other things as root, so the only other reason I can think > of is that e17 is already running under ptrace. > > I can't see strace or gdb in my process list, but is there something > else e17 does for debugging, and that I can turn off? > > I have: > ii e17 0.17.3-1 amd64 Enlightenment DR17 > Window Manager enlightenment_start is ptracing already. it's doing this so it catches segv's and can get a backtrace. you can temporarily turn it off (killall -USR1 enlightenment_start) BUT... once its off - any crash will bring your desktop down in flames - no more crash trapping and recovery until you log in again. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
