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Re: First-time usage problem: "Enter new password for systemtap server certificate/key database"


Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

> I finally got around to trying out systemtap today.  

Great.

> # stap -v -e 'probe vfs.read {printf("read performed\n"); exit()}'
> [...]
> Enter new password for systemtap server certificate/key database:

Dave Brolley should address this.  The certificate widget is supposed
to be invisible in normal usage.


> [...]  Further investigation (using strace, since
> I was impatient and don't know systemtap well enough yet) showed it to
> be reloading theme files frequently.  Now I just need to figure out
> how to attach a debugger to a process when an event like this is
> detected in systemtap...

system (sprintf ("gdb metacity %d", pid() /* or some other numerical expression */))

- FChE


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