Huh... definitely looks intriguing!  Going to have to keep an eye on that...
 Also some good information in there on (potential) ways to pry more
information from gdb (even if is more work).

Thanks!

- Paul

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Chris G <[email protected]> wrote:

> I haven't tried it yet, but this gdb feature for fedora 13 looks like it
> would be able to give you a sensible python stack trace:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EasierPythonDebugging
>
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Paul Molodowitch <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hey - I'm having to deal with solving some intermittent hard crashes in
>> Maya 2011, and noticed that it now prints out a c / assembly style
>> stack-trace, and a memory dump.
>>
>> I think some of this may always been saved away somewhere, but now that
>> it's in my face, it got me thinking... has anyone ever been able to make any
>> use of this information,  particularly in a python-ish context?  Ie, been
>> able to pull  any useful information out of it, such as what python call it
>> was in when it crashed? Or even what maya command it may have been running?
>>
>> I can always fall back on spamming a bunch of print statements to nail
>> down where the crash is occurring, but this can be a bit of a pain when (as
>> in this case) the crash isn't happening reliably...
>>
>> Any thoughts / tips people may have had when dealing with similar problems
>> would be useful!
>>
>> - Paul
>>
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