Interesting... I never knew they released pdb files. I'm dealing with 2011 crashes at the moment, so hopefully they'll release pdbs for that too at some point... if they haven't already - i'll have to pore over the devkit more carefully...
- Paul On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, hapgilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Although we are still using 2009, I debug hard crashes with VS and the > maya pdb files that were included in the service pack release. You > can't get actually get into the maya internal code, but you at least > get a useful stack. > I haven't ever debugged a python script related hard-crash this way, > so YMMV. > > On May 13, 11:54 am, 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 >> >> --http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -- http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya
