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This article aims to provide a couple of guidelines of how to debug Tvheadend with GDB.
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= Running in gdb to file a bug report =
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This method is by far the best one as it yields most info. Especially if you have compiled the source yourself.
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It does assume that you are able to reproduce the bug since you probably won't be running Tvheadend inside a gdb session normally.
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To start Tvheadend from a gdb session just execute this command when standing in the dir where tvheadend is checked out.
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{{{
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$ gdb --args build.Linux/tvheadend -d
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Or, If you get repeatable crashes in the installed binary you can also run gdb on that binary. In order to that you must disable the running daemon and run the binary as the hts user (or it won't pick up the correct config, etc)
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{{{
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$ sudo /etc/init.d/hts-tvheadend stop
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$ sudo -u hts -i
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$ gdb --args /usr/bin/tvheadend -d
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{{{
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GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu
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Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
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and "show warranty" for details.
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
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For bug reporting instructions, please see:
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<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
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Reading symbols from /home/andoma/tvheadend/build.Linux/tvheadend...done.
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{{{
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(gdb) r
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Eventually the program will crash. Then execute these three commands and paste in the bug report.
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=== Register dump ===
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{{{
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(gdb) info reg
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eax            0x0	0
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ecx            0x10	16
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edx            0x80cd818	135059480
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ebx            0x8178d90	135761296
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esp            0xb45ff140	0xb45ff140
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ebp            0xb45ff168	0xb45ff168
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esi            0x80f9f18	135241496
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edi            0xb45ff220	-1268780512
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eip            0x8057ec8	0x8057ec8 <subscription_unsubscribe+200>
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eflags         0x10282	[ SF IF RF ]
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cs             0x73	115
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ss             0x7b	123
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ds             0x7b	123
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es             0x7b	123
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fs             0x0	0
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gs             0x33	51
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}}}
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=== Disassembly of code around the crash ===
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{{{
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(gdb) disassemble $pc-32,$pc+32
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Dump of assembler code from 0x8057ea8 to 0x8057ee8:
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   0x08057ea8 <subscription_unsubscribe+168>:	add    $0x24,%al
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   0x08057eaa <subscription_unsubscribe+170>:	call   0x804a814 <free@plt>
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   0x08057eaf <subscription_unsubscribe+175>:	mov    %ebx,(%esp)
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   0x08057eb2 <subscription_unsubscribe+178>:	call   0x804a814 <free@plt>
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   0x08057eb7 <subscription_unsubscribe+183>:	call   0x80579c0 <subscription_reschedule>
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   0x08057ebc <subscription_unsubscribe+188>:	mov    0x80c8bc8,%eax
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   0x08057ec1 <subscription_unsubscribe+193>:	lea    0x0(%esi,%eiz,1),%esi
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=> 0x08057ec8 <subscription_unsubscribe+200>:	mov    (%eax),%edx
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   0x08057eca <subscription_unsubscribe+202>:	test   %edx,%edx
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   0x08057ecc <subscription_unsubscribe+204>:	je     0x8057ed4 <subscription_unsubscribe+212>
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   0x08057ece <subscription_unsubscribe+206>:	mov    0x4(%eax),%ecx
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   0x08057ed1 <subscription_unsubscribe+209>:	mov    %ecx,0x4(%edx)
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   0x08057ed4 <subscription_unsubscribe+212>:	mov    0x4(%eax),%ecx
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   0x08057ed7 <subscription_unsubscribe+215>:	mov    %edx,(%ecx)
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   0x08057ed9 <subscription_unsubscribe+217>:	mov    (%eax),%eax
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   0x08057edb <subscription_unsubscribe+219>:	jmp    0x8057ec8 <subscription_unsubscribe+200>
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   0x08057edd <subscription_unsubscribe+221>:	mov    0x2c(%ebx),%eax
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   0x08057ee0 <subscription_unsubscribe+224>:	movl   $0x8094ad9,0x8(%esp)
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=== Full backtrace ===
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{{{
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(gdb) bt full
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#0  subscription_unsubscribe (s=0x0) at /home/andoma/tvheadend/src/subscriptions.c:221
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        t = 0x80f9f18
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#1  0x08061609 in htsp_subscription_destroy (htsp=0xb45ff220, hs=0x81762b8) at /home/andoma/tvheadend/src/htsp.c:240
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No locals.
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#2  0x080616e9 in htsp_method_unsubscribe (htsp=0xb45ff220, in=0x817a468) at /home/andoma/tvheadend/src/htsp.c:806
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        s = 0x81762b8
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        sid = 1
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#3  0x080632ac in htsp_read_loop (fd=38, opaque=0x0, source=0x80d5774, self=0x80d5784) at /home/andoma/tvheadend/src/htsp.c:1065
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        m = 0x817a468
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        i = 8
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        reply = <value optimized out>
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        r = <value optimized out>
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        method = <value optimized out>
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#4  htsp_serve (fd=38, opaque=0x0, source=0x80d5774, self=0x80d5784) at /home/andoma/tvheadend/src/htsp.c:1188
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        htsp = {htsp_fd = 38, htsp_peer = 0x80d5774, htsp_version = 0, htsp_logname = 0x80d3420 "127.0.0.1 [ HTS Showtime ]", 
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          htsp_peername = 0x80ccf50 "127.0.0.1", htsp_username = 0x0, htsp_clientname = 0x80d7dd0 "HTS Showtime", htsp_async_mode = 1, 
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          htsp_async_link = {le_next = 0x0, le_prev = 0x80c7e30}, htsp_writer_thread = 3017796464, htsp_writer_run = 1, htsp_active_output_queues = {
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            tqh_first = 0x0, tqh_last = 0xb45ff250}, htsp_out_mutex = {__data = {__lock = 0, __count = 0, __owner = 0, __kind = 0, __nusers = 1, {
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                __spins = 0, __list = {__next = 0x0}}}, __size = '\000' <repeats 16 times>, "\001\000\000\000\000\000\000", __align = 0}, 
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          htsp_out_cond = {__data = {__lock = 0, __futex = 119, __total_seq = 60, __wakeup_seq = 59, __woken_seq = 59, __mutex = 0xb45ff258, 
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              __nwaiters = 2, __broadcast_seq = 0}, 
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            __size = "\000\000\000\000w\000\000\000<\000\000\000\000\000\000\000;\000\000\000\000\000\000\000;\000\000\000\000\000\000\000X\362_\264\002\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000", __align = 511101108224}, htsp_hmq_ctrl = {hmq_q = {tqh_first = 0x0, tqh_last = 0xb45ff2a0}, hmq_link = {
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              tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0xb45ff250}, hmq_strict_prio = 0, hmq_length = 0, hmq_payload = 0}, htsp_hmq_epg = {hmq_q = {
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              tqh_first = 0x0, tqh_last = 0xb45ff2bc}, hmq_link = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x0}, hmq_strict_prio = 0, hmq_length = 0, 
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            hmq_payload = 0}, htsp_hmq_qstatus = {hmq_q = {tqh_first = 0x0, tqh_last = 0xb45ff2d8}, hmq_link = {tqe_next = 0x81762e4, 
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              tqe_prev = 0xb45ff250}, hmq_strict_prio = 1, hmq_length = 0, hmq_payload = 0}, htsp_subscriptions = {lh_first = 0x0}, 
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          htsp_granted_access = 15, htsp_challenge = "\033\231\367B\270ʙ\375q~\272r\305&vә\\aۑ9\332+IM\036\365K\241\067K"}
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        buf = "127.0.0.1", '\000' <repeats 20 times>
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        s = <value optimized out>
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#5  0x0804d7a3 in tcp_server_start (aux=0x80d5768) at /home/andoma/tvheadend/src/tcp.c:397
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        val = 1
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#6  0x0018b96e in start_thread (arg=0xb45ffb70) at pthread_create.c:300
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---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
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        __res = <value optimized out>
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        __ignore1 = <value optimized out>
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        __ignore2 = <value optimized out>
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        pd = 0xb45ffb70
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        now = <value optimized out>
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        unwind_buf = {cancel_jmp_buf = {{jmp_buf = {1687540, 0, 4001536, -1268779880, 1031645625, -1276594991}, mask_was_saved = 0}}, priv = {pad = {
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              0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, data = {prev = 0x0, cleanup = 0x0, canceltype = 0}}}
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        not_first_call = <value optimized out>
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        robust = <value optimized out>
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        freesize = <value optimized out>
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        __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "start_thread"
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#7  0x00292a4e in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S:130
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No locals.
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= Using the crash info from syslog =
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Starting with r5182 the output in syslog (/var/log/daemon.log) from a crash looks like this:
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[ALERT]:CRASH: Signal: 11 in PRG: build.Linux/tvheadend (SVN-r5179) [4c9746188f23f5e04863d2d8388833b71f45cbf4] CWD: /home/andoma/tvheadend  
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[ALERT]:CRASH: Fault address 0x3 (Address not mapped)
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[ALERT]:CRASH: Loaded libraries: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 /usr/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 /usr/lib/libavahi-client.so.3 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/libdbus-1.so.3 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat.so.2 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis.so.2 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files.so.2  
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[ALERT]:CRASH: Register dump [19]: 00000033 00000000 0000007b 0000007b 00000001 000003e8 bfb2c948 bfb2c7d0 000003e8 0000009c 0028d36c 00000000 0000000e 00000006 0804bbc3 00000073 00010246 bfb2c7d0 0000007b 
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[ALERT]:CRASH: STACKTRACE
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[ALERT]:CRASH: build.Linux/tvheadend 0x80678a9
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[ALERT]:CRASH: __kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0  ()
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[ALERT]:CRASH: __libc_start_main+0xe6  (/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6)
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[ALERT]:CRASH: build.Linux/tvheadend 0x804aee1
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Just paste this info in the bug report