[PD] debugging sporadic hangs at startup

[Miller Puckette]

I've never done this but perhaps it would work to edit the line in
pd-gui.tcl:

exec -- $pd_exec -guiport $::port &

to:

exec -- $pd_exec -guiport $::port -d 1 >& /tmp/foo &

(not sure if '>&" or '2>' depending on shell).

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:23:23PM -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> This is actually on Linux.
> 
> The problem is likely not in C, since program does start up and creates the
> main Pd window and then hangs during loading of the patch (the patch window
> is created but canvas remains empty and after that nothing responds any
> more). It seems to me this is probably because at some point messages sent
> to tcl/tk over network (from C) get mangled after which gui stops
> responding. I had issues like these before with network externals and solved
> them, but this is the one that I had a hard time weeding out since it is so
> sporadic. For this reason, I would like to somehow output all  tcl/tk
> commands that were sent to gui. Any way to do this and send it to a separate
> log file without opening a terminal?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Miller Puckette [mailto:msp at ucsd.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 12:27 PM
> > To: Ivica Ico Bukvic
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: Re: [PD] debugging sporadic hangs at startup
> > 
> > On Macintosh I presume...
> > 
> > Maybe you can use gdb to 'attach' to the running Pd process, assuming it
> at
> > least gets started up (which I assume it must have in order to start
> loading
> > the patch).
> > 
> > cheers
> > Miller
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:22:57PM -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am noticing sporadic GUI freezes when loading complex patches on
> > startup.
> > > How would one go about debugging this when most of such startups
> > > happen by clicking on the app icon (so no access to gdb or console).
> > > Short of changing the app icon to make everyone's apps always start
> > > with gdb, is there a way to redirect debugging output to a file?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On a related matter, any other users noticed these ocassional hangs
> > > when loading a complex patch (the window opens but remains blank and
> > > clicking on any options in the menu does nothing)?
> > >
> > 
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