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	<title>Fer's blog</title>
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	<description>fer, ferulo, that crazy man</description>
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		<title>About debugging</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/2005/Aug//debugging</guid>
		<description><p>Reading <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/view/alexl/">alex</a> post about <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/view/alexl/2005/08/26/0">Debugging without symbols</a> I remebered some debugging magic I did some time ago: I had to debug a core file generated by a dynamically loaded module on a Solaris without debugging info, having only a non stripped module on another machine. Lot of magic with nm and add-symbol-file. Thinking about what we can do for GNOME...<ul><li>Users running jhbuild or garnome are ok, because they have debug symbols and provide useful backtraces</li><li>Users with a vendor instalation are not ok, because they don't have debug symbols, and asking them to download a bunch of MiBs is not acceptable</li></ul>So this is my propossed solution for these backtraces without debug info:<ul><li>Add to bug-buddy a new field with the md5sum of the crashing binary (and libs?)</li><li>Set up a big machine with jailed enviroments (one per distribution or one per distro-gnome-bins-and-libs pair)</li><li>Sent the backtrace to that machine</li><li>Run on it gdb against the matching env (chrooting to it)</li></ul>...and we will have a beatiful stact trace. Some more open questions:<ul><li>Should bug-buddy directly sent the bactrace to the "debug server",get the answer and send final report to bugs@gnome.org? Or should the magic procmail at bugs@gnome.org get this info from the server</li><li>Can we get this "big" machine? Maybe Intel? <a href="http://sri.deworks.net/wordpress">sri</a>?</li><li>Do we have volunterrs for se5tting the machine up (installing all jailed distros) and maintaing (installing new distros)</li></ul></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:29 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Random stuff</title>
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		<description><p><b>Work</b><br/>I'm working a lot, too much maybe. I got sick three times in three weeks, last one I went to ER and the doctor told me I needed to take a rest/hollydays, but the project I'm managing is in a critical phase and I cannot take it :( <br/>I don't have time for the things I used to do and my friends are complaining, telling me to leave my current job. I neither had time to make enough GNOME work, and my only visible work on 2.12 will be nautilus evince thumbnails and gnome-keyring-manager</p>
<p><b>Music</b><br/>Lately I'm listening to more jazz music and some flamenco. Recently discovered <i>Bambino</i>:<br/><center><img src="http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/img/bambino.jpg" border="0"/></center><br/>Also I have been fascinated with a single 800's song: <i>Groenlandia</i> by the Zombies, a band led by <a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0005970/">Bernardo Bonezzi</a> that now is a succesfull film music composer:<br/><img src="http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/img/bonezzi-1.png" border="0"/><img src="http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/img/bonezzi-2.png" border="0"/><img src="http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/img/bonezzi-3.png" border="0"/></p>
<p><b>Movies</b><br/>Also not enough time for watching movies: in the last months only Batman Begins, Episode III, Sostiene Pereira and Roman Hollydays</p>
<p><b>Travel</b><br/>Without hollydays it's dificult to travel, but I mamaged to do some weekends-trips:<ul><li><b>Menorca</b>: I went to this beautiful Belear island to visit my big friend Toni</li><li><b>Malaga/Granada</b>: Visiting friends there: Alberto, Diego, Fran and Fred</li><li><b>Lanzarote</b>: "my island", visiting family</li></ul></p>
<p><b>Night Life</b><br/>Hotel California closed, what a pity!. It was a warm pub where listening cool rock music and playing chess.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:34 -0400</pubDate>
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