Blocking automatic debugger launch

[Kenneth Porter]

I've got an app that seems to be crashing during shutdown. (Tribes 
Vengeance dedicated server) I'm running it detached inside a screen 
session, and I don't want the debugger to automatically launch when the app 
crashes. I just want the thing to die when I send it a "quit" command. 
Currently I've hacked the registry setting and changed the debugger name to 
"true". Is there a cleaner way to accomplish this?

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:13:36PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> I've got an app that seems to be crashing during shutdown. (Tribes 
> Vengeance dedicated server) I'm running it detached inside a screen 
> session, and I don't want the debugger to automatically launch when the 
> app crashes. I just want the thing to die when I send it a "quit" command. 
> Currently I've hacked the registry setting and changed the debugger name 
> to "true". Is there a cleaner way to accomplish this?
> Yes, there is: fix the crash! :-)

Anyway, I guess that Wine WILL do the debugger invocation once there's
an exception, so your approach should be fine.

Andreas Mohr

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, November 08, 2004 10:38 AM +0100 Andreas Mohr 
<andi(a)rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> wrote:
> Yes, there is: fix the crash! :-)

Yeah, I know, it's just that it's not my code and I'm not certain that the 
authors will be releasing an update. There's a rumor of one but no 
certainty, as the company (a game publisher) refuses to make any 
announcements about what it's working on.

[Jonathan Wilson]

> Yeah, I know, it's just that it's not my code and I'm not certain that 
> the authors will be releasing an update. There's a rumor of one but no 
> certainty, as the company (a game publisher) refuses to make any 
> announcements about what it's working on.
> Does the crash happen on a real windows box?
> If it doesnt happen on a real windows box, its probobly a WINE bug and 
> should be fixed by the WINE people.
> If it happens on real windows then yeah, its probobly something for the 
> developer of the engine to fix.

[Izak Burger]

Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 09:13:36PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > I've got an app that seems to be crashing during shutdown. (Tribes 
> > Vengeance dedicated server) I'm running it detached inside a screen 
> > session, and I don't want the debugger to automatically launch when the 
> > app crashes. I just want the thing to die when I send it a "quit" command. 
> > Currently I've hacked the registry setting and changed the debugger name 
> > to "true". Is there a cleaner way to accomplish this?
>
> Anyway, I guess that Wine WILL do the debugger invocation once there's
> an exception, so your approach should be fine.

I had a similar problem.  My solution was to simply redirect stdin to 
/dev/null.  The app crashes, the debugger starts and read EOF from 
stdin.  It terminates, problem solved :-)

Cheers,
Izak