[BRLTTY] BRLTTY 4.2 crash

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2010/05/30 at 11:40 +0200]

>I have no idea how this might work, because BRLTTY is currently run by the
>Debian start scripts. Is it possible to write a script like this
>===
>#!/bin/sh
>ulimit -c unlimited
>brltty.blah -l 7 $1
>===
>And put it in /sbin to be run instead of the binary itself (and assuming that the
>binary is called brltty.blah). I don't know whether this dirt hack might work,
>but I have no idea how to change the startup scripts.

Yes, that should work.

>How can I build BRLTTY with debugging symbols? I found no configure option and
>there's also no Debian package called brltty-dbg. So where do I get those
>symbols?

Configure with --disable-stripping.

>BTW, in order to work I'm currently running BRLTTY 4.2dev rev 5143, which has
>also crashes, but very seldom and after such a crash the keyboard is not frozen.
>Hence it's possible to restart BRLTTY without reboot.

eere you getting the crash in the released 4.2?

How reproducible is it?

Do you have a keyboard key table enabled?

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