Fer's blog http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog fer, ferulo, that crazy man en Copyright 2006 Fernando Herrera 60 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:29 GMT fherrera@onirica.com PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ 1.3.2 2/13/2006 About debugging debugging http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/debugging.html Reading alex post about Debugging without symbols 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...
  • Users running jhbuild or garnome are ok, because they have debug symbols and provide useful backtraces
  • 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
So this is my propossed solution for these backtraces without debug info:
  • Add to bug-buddy a new field with the md5sum of the crashing binary (and libs?)
  • Set up a big machine with jailed enviroments (one per distribution or one per distro-gnome-bins-and-libs pair)
  • Sent the backtrace to that machine
  • Run on it gdb against the matching env (chrooting to it)
...and we will have a beatiful stact trace. Some more open questions:
  • 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
  • Can we get this "big" machine? Maybe Intel? sri?
  • Do we have volunterrs for se5tting the machine up (installing all jailed distros) and maintaing (installing new distros)

]]> main Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:29 GMT Random stuff random http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/random.html Work
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 :(
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

Music
Lately I'm listening to more jazz music and some flamenco. Recently discovered Bambino:


Also I have been fascinated with a single 800's song: Groenlandia by the Zombies, a band led by Bernardo Bonezzi that now is a succesfull film music composer:

Movies
Also not enough time for watching movies: in the last months only Batman Begins, Episode III, Sostiene Pereira and Roman Hollydays

Travel
Without hollydays it's dificult to travel, but I mamaged to do some weekends-trips:

  • Menorca: I went to this beautiful Belear island to visit my big friend Toni
  • Malaga/Granada: Visiting friends there: Alberto, Diego, Fran and Fred
  • Lanzarote: "my island", visiting family

Night Life
Hotel California closed, what a pity!. It was a warm pub where listening cool rock music and playing chess.

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