[Stackless] Segmentation fault help

[Richard Tew]

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Richard Tew <richard.m.tew at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Andriy Drozdyuk <drozzy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Not sure if this is the right place but here goes.
>>
>> This is as good a place as any.
>>
>>> I've been going through stackless tutorial, but when I got to the
>>> hackysack game:
>>> http://members.verizon.net/olsongt/stackless/why_stackless.html#stackless
>>>
>>> I get a "segmentation fault (core dumped)" error message.
>>> I was using a maint svn release of the 2.6.
>>> I tried installing the regular 2.6 svn release - but the same result.
>>>
>>> I am running a fedora 12 system, and I had python 2.6 previously
>>> installed (i installed stackless on top).
>>>
>>> I was wandering if anyone had similar problem, or if the tutorial code
>>> runs fine for you?
>>
>> If you want help with something like this, your best bet is to post a
>> stack trace of where it crashed.  Personally, I use Windows.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Andriy Drozdyuk <drozzy at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey Richard,
> thanks for replying.
> However, I am not sure how to post a stacktrace. The error message
> generated is just that - seg fault.
> Is there some log I can inspect or some piece of code i need to use to
> output it?

Well, it has been a few years since I did this on a regular basis.
But I vaguely recall something along the lines of running the compiled
Python interpreter under gdb, and then when it crashes typing
something like 'bt'.  Given that.. and googling:

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=debug+python+backtrace

Gives:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb

Cheers,
Richard.