From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco van Hulten Subject: Re: kodi crash, and gdb not found Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:08:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20171119180851.5ed082f8@jasniac.instanton> References: <20171117215914.6f666dde@jasniac.instanton> <87r2suted1.fsf@fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/kA2Bsg+ZnuhAgQBxcGODJMP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55282) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGT5e-00044Q-V6 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:09:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGT5Z-0004uP-VA for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:09:06 -0500 Received: from eterpe-smout.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.16]:49749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eGT5Z-0004so-NS for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:09:01 -0500 Received: from bgo1cloudm2.nextgentel.net ([80.202.8.59]) by eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTP id <0OZO00JHKCYYV090@eterpe-smout.broadpark.no> for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:08:58 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <87r2suted1.fsf@fastmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Marius Bakke Cc: help-guix@gnu.org --Sig_/kA2Bsg+ZnuhAgQBxcGODJMP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marius=E2=80=94 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: =20 > >> gdb not installed, can't get stack trace. =20 > > > > 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: =20 > >> Manual page gdb(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit) =20 > > > > 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. = =20 >=20 > 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 =E2=80=94 kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171106-nogitfound =E2=80=94 works 5 =E2=80=94 kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171113-nogitfound =E2=80=94 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 =E2=80=94 kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171113-nogitfound =E2=80=94 crashes That's six days ago; that's not that old, right? =E2=80=94Marco --Sig_/kA2Bsg+ZnuhAgQBxcGODJMP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digitale handtekening -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloRuqoACgkQpAol4YLG/swQvwCfc0NgVCeYUYMdj90kse9ha6S9 ml4An33NJe6djAB+WU3/TMxcOMDkrYLY =+M7W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/kA2Bsg+ZnuhAgQBxcGODJMP--