need help using gdb to provide a backtrace for kwin ?

[yossarianuk]

Hi people.

I am trying to provide a bug report for KDE4 (if anyones interested the bug is http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157282 )

I have tried to use (from konsole in kde4)

kde4user@mrsuseamd64:~> ps aux | grep kwin

kde4user 7972 16.1 4.5 262844 46488 ? SL 21:45 0:58 kwin -session 1014410d108e2000120276453600000058690000_120276487 2_613751
kde4user 8412 0.0 0.0 5120 812 pts/2 S+ 21:51 0:00 grep kwin

Then

kde4user@mrsuseamd64:~> gdb kwin 7972

But it locks the system

I have to go to a console out of X and kill the gdb process.

Anyone got any ideas I can't be doing this correctly.

I would preferably like it output to a file.

Any help will we welcomed

Cheers

[yossarianuk]

Re: need help using gdb to provide a backtrace for kwin ?

Hi.

Does anyone know how to do this ?

i.e has anyone used gdb on kwin ?