[BRLTTY] some strange issues with brltty 5.3.1

[kendell clark]

hi

First, I'll run a backtrace on the stripped executible, since it's the 
system installed copy. Can you give me a command to run to get the log 
you need? I'm adding the lines to brltty.conf right now.

Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 5/6/2016 9:36 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/05/06 at 21:03 -0500]
>
>> But myself and Bernhard have run into a strange error. As soon as brltty
>> starts it is immediately killed. The exact error is as follows. Note
>> that this is gotten by running "systemctl status brltty" in a command shell.
> ...
>> To get brltty to crash, the first thing I do after starting brltty is to
>> press alt+control+f2 to jump to a text console, which triggers the
>> error. We've tried tweaking the config file but nothing we do seems to
>> have any effect. Note that this only happens if the config is correct.
>> If there are any errors in the config file, such as brltty not being
>> able to load a speech or braille driver, it doesn't get killed, it just
>> keeps running. I'm stumped. What steps can we take next to fix this?
> A gdb backtrace of the crash would be helpful. That, of course, works best with
> an unstripped executable. If you're using the released tarball then that won't
> be the case. If you're building your own then the brltty executable in the
> build tree won't be stripped. Even with a stripped executable, though, the
> backtrace should still be helpful.
>
> Also, please add lines like these to brltty.conf, and then post the log so that
> we can have a look at it:
>
>     log-file /path/to/logfile
>     log-level debug
>
> Please also let us know which version of systemd you're using, and post your
> brltty systemd service unit(s) as well as your brltty.conf.
>
> If you're building your own brltty, please post config.log (from the top level
> of the build tree).
>