Linux

Debugging Linux applications

LDD

Linux LDD is just a wrapper for:

LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 <cmd>

Core dumps

To check core dump handler:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
|/usr/sbin/coredump-handler %h_%t_%p.core

Valgrind

valgrind --trace-children=yes --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all <binary>

Disable Nvidia drivers and enable Intel embedded HD graphics driver

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-intel libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri mesa-utils xserver-xorg-core
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
sudo update-alternatives --remove gl_conf /usr/lib/nvidia-current/ld.so.conf
reboot