[sf-perl] Debugger goodies rendered worthless
Joe Brenner
doom at kzsu.stanford.edu
Wed Jun 20 10:25:40 PDT 2007
David Alban <extasia at extasia.org> wrote:
> As you may know, the ability to start a perl debugger command with a
> pipe symbol, so that it pages the output, can be a very handy thing.
> Both to actually page the output, and, in the case of using less(1) as
> your pager, to be able easily to save the output to a file while
> debugging.
>
> I'm debugging on a machine in which many things that have worked for
> me on other machines don't seem to work. Prepending the pipe symbol
> to debugger commands doesn't page the output. The terminal settings
> are messed up. For instance, the stty settings for erase, kill,
> werase, lnext aren't set. (I tried setting them in the target user's
> .bash_profile, to no avail.) In fact, in the debugger, this works:
>
> !! ls
>
> But I get:
>
> DB<10> !!stty
> stty: standard input: Invalid argument
> (Command exited 1)
>
> wtf?
>
> Because the stty erase, werase, and kill characters aren't set (or, at
> least, because I can't shell out to execute stty, I can't determine
> what they are), I have to type each debugger command perfectly, or I'm
> wasting a lot of time.
>
> Any suggestions?
Probably not from me, I tend to run the debugger inside of emacs,
and if I want to save some output, I can cut-and-paste using emacs
commands.
> Since I wrote the above text, I figured, maybe it's because what I'm
> doing is running a perl program on host A which is ssh'ing to host B,
> sudo'ing another perl program as root. I think that somehow, going
> over the network and/or going through ssh is rendering the helpful
> features inoperative.
>
> Have others run into this? Is it a solvable problem?
Are you doing a plain "ssh" or "ssh -X"? I've seen a simple "-X"
fix what I thought were baffling tty issues in the past (it let's
you start up X applications over ssh).
Running as root can give you X app problems as well, of course...
but I'm not sure that's your difficulty.
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