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Re: Launching applications within GDB

 

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Mike Sheldon <elleo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I'm currently in the process of attempting to create a port of MeeSpot
> (a MeeGo spotify client) for Ubuntu Touch,

Awesome! Look forward to trying that myself!

> however while it runs fine on
> my desktop it's crashing at launch when executed on the phone. It'd be
> very helpful if I could run the application within gdb to see what's
> going on, however attempting to launch any application from a terminal
> on the phone (rather than going through the graphical launcher) results
> in the error: "QUbuntu: Could not create application instance".
>

Have you taken a look in /home/phablet/.local/cache for recently
written log files? They are usually enlightening even without gdb.

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
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