insight/349: UI hangs using 6.8.1 on Linux (CentOS) and contact info on website is wrong

[alan@carwiles.com]

>Number:         349
>Category:       insight
>Synopsis:       UI hangs using 6.8.1 on Linux (CentOS) and contact info on website is wrong
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 29 20:13:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     alan
>Release:        6.8.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
Linux CentOS as noted in details.
>Description:
Hi, 

I sent the following message to insight@sources.redhat.com but the mail bounced, so the website pages need fixing.

Moe importantly...
I have used insight for a month or so, mostly successfully.  However, I've had situations where the UI hangs on me, as well as a few other issues.  I am running on Linux as covered in the version strings below...  My question is this.  I have a gdb installed with insight (which I configured and made on this system), plus a gdb that was already on my system.  I renamed the insight version of gdb to gdbb to be able to do "which gdb" and find any other copy.  See he version strings below.  Also, my insight was configured and built from the 6.8.1 download.

Should I be using the gdb (currently called gdbb) that came with insight when using insight, or should I be using the one that was there before.  I've been using the one that came with insight, but the UI hangs are getting very frustrating and causing me to ditch the program (just about).

Thanks for help with this...
Alan - alan@carwiles.com






alan{~:}1017$ which insight
/usr/local/bin/insight

alan{~:}1018$ which gdb
/usr/bin/gdb

alan{~:}1019$ which gdbb
/usr/local/bin/gdbb

alan{~:}1020$ gdb --version
GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-37.el5)
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu".

alan{~:}1021$ gdbb --version
GNU gdb 6.8
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu".

alan{~:}1022$ insight --version
GNU gdb 6.8
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu".

alan{~:}1023$ uname -a
Linux alan-dt 2.6.18-128.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 11:19:46 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

alan{~:}1024$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-128.el5PAE (mockbuild@builder16.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 11:19:46 EST 2009
alan{~:}1025$ 

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