[Swan-dev] debugging our test runner

[Andrew Cagney]

Have a look in debug.log - it should contain absolutely everything.
The problem then becomes one of figuring out where the log lines came
from.


On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 01:33, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
>
> I decided to take a poke at this since I had a hung run sitting around for
> 24 or so hours.
>
> How does one debug a running python program?
>
> Googling tells me that it isn't easy.
>
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/4dooqu/how_to_attachdebug_an_already_running_python/>
>
> Some brave souls use gdb, thus they have to study the entrails of the
> interpreter.  I'm not that desperate.
>
> pdb can attach to a running program IF you installed breakpoints
> before you ran it.  That doesn't count.
>
> I also found PyDev:
> <http://pydev.blogspot.com/2014/09/attaching-debugger-to-running-process.html>
> Sounds good.
>
> Then I found that it was part of Eclipse.  I've never used Eclipse
> because it seems like a monster, but if the monster can eat bugs, why
> not?
>
> My computer and I thrashed about in eclipse for a while.  What a
> treat.
>
> The term from which I invoked eclipse got a message.  I didn't
> preserve it.
>
> Would anyone else have run eclipse from a terminal?  If not, how would
> they see this message?
>
> The message said that I needed to run a pkcon command to install
> something for building a project.  When I issued the pkcon command
> (sudoed, even though the message didn't suggest this), it wanted to
> remove some packages, including anaconda.  No thanks!
>
> I followed the blog post for running PyDev.  It took a lot of fumbling
> to find where to tell it the location of the python interpreter.  It
> was quite insistent that I set this but gave no assistance in locating
> the setting.  Being a GUI, I am unlikely to remember how I did it.
>
> I did try "help" but that did nothing.  I'm not complaining that it
> didn't address my question, I'm complaining that it was a no-op!
>
> Then the moment of truth.  Attach to the running program and look at a
> traceback!
>
> At which point it hit a bug and asked if I'd like to report it to
> three or four different folks.  I said "sure".
>
> Then the bug reporter failed in a couple of ways: It got some dbus
> thing to time out and ask me (every few seconds) if I wanted to wait
> or proceed.  And the bug reporter failing provoked another bug
> reporter to come up.
>
> I gave up.  What a shambles.
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