Blog posts tagged "Debugging"

How to troubleshoot application issues and crashes with snapd gdbserver

How to troubleshoot application issues and crashes with snapd gdbserver

Sometimes, applications may not run well, or they could even crash. When such issues occur, it is useful to have a consistent, reproducible method of...

Apps
Introducing etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool

Introducing etrace – a multi-purpose application profiling tool

These days, the internal workings of Linux applications involve many different moving parts. Sometimes, it can be rather difficult to debug them when things...

Desktop
Slow snap? Trace-exec to the rescue!

Slow snap? Trace-exec to the rescue!

Slow applications are never fun. But not knowing why an application is not behaving correctly can be even more frustrating. A well-designed system that can...

Desktop
Debug ACPI Tables with Firmware Test Suite (FWTS)

Debug ACPI Tables with Firmware Test Suite (FWTS)

In my previous two articles, ACPI AML Debugger in Ubuntu 18.04 & Debug AML (DSD & SSDT) with ACPICA Utilities, I discussed techniques for AML debugging;...

Cloud and server
Debug ACPI DSDT and SSDT with ACPICA Utilities

Debug ACPI DSDT and SSDT with ACPICA Utilities

Using acpidbg on Ubuntu 18.04 x64 can be quite handy; however, the Linux kernel with ACPI_DEBUGGER is not always available, such as on Ubuntu for ARM. In such...

Desktop
Make your snap development faster

Make your snap development faster

“All my centurions develop using snaps.” Julius Caesar By and large, software development can be an enjoyable process. Until you hit the first error, that is....

Desktop
ACPI AML Runtime Debugger in Ubuntu 18.04 (x64)

ACPI AML Runtime Debugger in Ubuntu 18.04 (x64)

ACPICA is an open-source project that provides an operating system (OS)-independent reference implementation. It also contains a list of utilities such as ASL...

Desktop