Re: kodi crash, and gdb not found

[Marius Bakke]

Marco van Hulten <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius—
>
> Je 19 nov 17:36 transskribita far Marius Bakke:
>> Marco van Hulten <address@hidden> writes:
>> > I have `kodi' and `gdb' installed.  When I start kodi, it crashes:
>> >
>> > https://paste.debian.net/996313/
>> >
>> > An excerpt of the `kodi' output:  
>> >> gdb not installed, can't get stack trace.  
>> >
>> > but I installed gdb, under the same user:
>> >
>> >     address@hidden ~$ gdb --version | head -1
>> >     GNU gdb (GDB) 8.0.1
>> >
>> > Interesting, `man gdb` does not gives an empty or unreadable man page:
>> > at the bottom of the terminal is:  
>> >> Manual page gdb(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit)  
>> >
>> > I have never before tried (to let a program) use gdb on GuixSD.
>> >
>> > Last Sunday, the program `kodi' worked fine.  Shortly after that
>> > (according to lastlog(8) the same day), I did a package upgrade, but
>> > did not test kodi hereafter (according to `history`).  Today, I tested
>> > kodi and it crashes.  I upgraded packages, but then it still crashes.  
>> 
>> Can you try rolling back to the generation that worked, to verify that
>> it's not something in your environment that has changed?  Maybe also try
>> to temporarily move away the ".kodi" folder in the users home directory.
>
> Removing ~/.kodi/ did not solve the issue.
>
> Rolling back sufficiently far did help.  My generations:
>
> 4 — kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171106-nogitfound — works
> 5 — kodi 18.0-ALPHA1 Git:20171113-nogitfound — crashes
>
> Fantastic feature this rolling back!

It's pretty nice :-)

I assume "18.0-ALPHA1" here is actually "18.0_alpha-6-f22d62d".

I have updated the snapshot in Guix to point to the latest upstream
commit as of today, can you try updating to it and see if that works for
you?  It starts here on an up-to-date profile, at least.

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