[BRLTTY] introduction

[kendell clark]

hi
My x server is running on tty7. I'd be happy to capture a core dump, if
I had any idea how. Can you give me instructions? I don't have tools
like abrt, which help in this process, but I can follow manual
instructions. I didn't even know tty0 existed, I thought tty1 was the
first available tty. The first thing I do after starting brltty is to
switch to tty2 using control+alt+f2, at which point brltty is killed,
although I'm not a hundred percent sure it's the console switch that
does it.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/03/19 at 13:43 -0500]
>
>> Ok, I've got a debug log of brltty, as well as a file called "status"
>> which is the systemctl status brltty output. Attached below.
> Which tty is your X servder running on. I don't see any console siwtching 
> taking place. What I'm seeing is brltty dying right after start-up, as soon as 
> it's having a look at tty0.
>
> It's being killed with SIGABRT, which is very strange. It almost seems as 
> though systemd itself may be deciding to kill it.
>
> The only place that brltty itself calls abort() (which'd cause a SIGABRT) is if 
> the BrlAPI client encounters a non-recoverable error and its default exception 
> handler is being used. This can't be your case because you're no longer using 
> the BrlAPI braille driver.
>
> Can you capture a core dump of the crash? If so, please compress the core file 
> before attaching it (to protect it from being mangled somewhere out there in 
> email land), and also include your brltty executable (unstripped if possible) 
> so that the core dump will make more sense. Note that the brltty executable is 
> stripped when installed but it's still unstripped within the build tree.
>