[Lazarus] Status of GDB and Lazarus/FPC debugging threaded apps

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:19 -0600, Andrew Brunner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl> wrote:
> > What happens if you kill Lazarus/gdb/your application when the desktop
> > freezes? Do you really have to restart gdm?
> 
> Most of the times, nothing but ctrl+alt+f2 responds.  The entire
> desktop goes into a halted state.  

Yes, but then you have a new terminal, in which you can kill your
application/lazarus gdb. (try killall -9 gdb) That probably restores
your desktop responsibility.

> Other times the entire laptop hangs
> and I have to hold the power button down.

Most often it is also possible to use ssh to connect to the machine and
kill some processes.

Joost.