Re: how do you debug nautilus file manager

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 21:48 -0600, Stuart Citrin wrote:
> Sorry to bother  whoever reads this email with my novice mess, but I 
> have been banging on this for a week and it's starting to drive me 
> crazy.  I am trying to eventually add some features to nautilus file 
> manager....perhaps I can come up with some useful ideas...I know I am 
> starting out too big..but that's how I usually do things.  Before I 
> attempt to start, I want to be able to make sure I can debug the thing.  
> I did( with some makefile fixups) get the project to build with 
> debugging symbols and without optimizations. However, if I attempt to 
> launch it in a debugger, such as Anjuta or Nemiver or even gdb, it just 
> spawns off the actual file manager executable  and returns leaving the 
> actual  file manager essentially orphaned somewhere out there in vapor. 
> (This is using /src/.libs/nautilus or /src/.libs/lt-nautilus or the 
> nautilus script in /src.)  If I attempt to attach (with the debugger) to 
> the running file manager ("nautilus") process once it is spawned off, I 
> can do this, but it never loads the symbols and maps for 
> libnautilus-file-manager or libnautilus-private... that is I can't set 
> breakpoints. (Yes!, they were built debug)   Any ideas on how I can get 
> these two latter libraries to get loaded into a debugger?

Hi, you can quit the currently running Nautilus with "nautilus -q". Then
"gdb ./src/.libs/nautilus" should work just fine.

Cheers!