[Wayland] plasma crashes and cannot attach gdb to kwin_wayland

[Germano Massullo]

Il 13/04/2017 18:41, Martin Gräßlin ha scritto:
> Am 2017-04-13 17:19, schrieb 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
>
> I think you are looking at a false positive here. Given the backtrace
> I think the message is a side effect not the cause. If the Wayland
> server had problems everything would die not just Plasma. And it would
> not crash - at least not directly. It could only crash in the cleanup
> handler and that's not the case here.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>

Mmh ok. Does the bugreport contain anything useful?