Marius— Je 19 nov 17:36 transskribita far Marius Bakke: > Marco van Hulten writes: > > I have `kodi' and `gdb' installed. When I start kodi, it crashes: > > > > https://paste.debian.net/996313/ > > > > An excerpt of the `kodi' output: > >> gdb not installed, can't get stack trace. > > > > but I installed gdb, under the same user: > > > > kodi@watson ~$ gdb --version | head -1 > > GNU gdb (GDB) 8.0.1 > > > > Interesting, `man gdb` does not gives an empty or unreadable man page: > > at the bottom of the terminal is: > >> Manual page gdb(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit) > > > > I have never before tried (to let a program) use gdb on GuixSD. > > > > Last Sunday, the program `kodi' worked fine. Shortly after that > > (according to lastlog(8) the same day), I did a package upgrade, but > > did not test kodi hereafter (according to `history`). Today, I tested > > kodi and it crashes. I upgraded packages, but then it still crashes. > > Can you try rolling back to the generation that worked, to verify that > it's not something in your environment that has changed? Maybe also try > to temporarily move away the ".kodi" folder in the users home directory. Removing ~/.kodi/ did not solve the issue. Rolling back sufficiently far did help. My generations: 4 — kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171106-nogitfound — works 5 — kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171113-nogitfound — crashes Fantastic feature this rolling back! Sidenote: I see that the guix-profile symlink in /var/guix/profiles/per-user/*/ is absolute; why no relative links? > I'm currently testing the latest git snapshot of Kodi regardless, the > alpha version in Guix is pretty old already. Originally Kodi 18 was > slated for July, but the release was pushed back to January[0], so the > version in Guix is probably pretty buggy. I installed GuixSD 0.13.0. Hereafter, I have done a `guix pull` and `guix package -u`, which resulted recently in 9 — kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171113-nogitfound — crashes That's six days ago; that's not that old, right? —Marco