[Kde-pim] Re: I need help by testing kmail2 with gdb and --nofork

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Sunday 16 January 2011 18:32:36 Guy Maurel wrote:
> As notice at the beginning of kmail-main I try:
> $ cgdb kmail
> (gdb) set args --nofork
> (gdb) show args
> Argument list to give program being debugged when it is started is
> "--nofork". (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/kmail --nofork
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> 
> ...
> kmail: Unknown option 'fork'.
> kmail: Use --help to get a list of available command line options.
> 
> Program exited with code 0376.
> 
> What do I do wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong, this is caused by a bug in kdelibs.
Happens sometimes as well for me, and sometimes not, I don't know the reason.
If you don't need to debug KMail startup, you can attach the debugger to an 
already running kmail with "cgdb --pid `pidof kmail`"

Regards,
Thomas
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