[Wayland] plasma crashes and cannot attach gdb to kwin_wayland

[Germano Massullo]

Il 13/04/2017 16:49, Martin Gräßlin ha scritto:
> Am 2017-04-13 16:08, schrieb Germano Massullo:
>> Il 13/04/2017 13:12, David Edmundson ha scritto:
>>> ​"echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope"  (or run GDB
>>> as root)
>>>
>>> David
>> As root in tty3 I attached GDB to kwin_wayland and as soon I got back to
>> the graphical session, the system got stuck and I could not neither
>> return back to tty3, so I had to use Magic SysRq key to restart the
>> system.
>> The wiki says to try to use SSH, but it would be useless too since I am
>> not able to use the graphical session if kwin_wayland is attached to GDB
>
> Of course you need to continue once you attached gdb. I'm not sure
> what you want to achieve but debugging the running display manager on
> the same system - well it's even more impossible than debugging the
> running window manager on X11. I'm working with nested kwin_wayland
> running in gdb to do debugging.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>

A running from bash Plasma, when it crashes[1], sends a message like
> The Wayland connection broke. Did the Wayland compositor die?
so I was trying to figure out if kwin_wayland crashes too
[1]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378707