Questions tagged [debug]
To debug is to attempt to locate and remove errors (bugs) in a computer system.
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Corrupt file system after a program crashing
I setup Windows 10 to generate full dumps for my MyUniquelyNamedApp.exe by importing the following file in RegistryEditor:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...
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Debugging a TCP client/server pair of applications on Windows?
I have a server application in .NET 6/VS2022 which creates a TCP listener, and a python 3 application which creates a socket to connect to the server application.
Rather than hopping back and forth ...
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Android 8.0.0: can not enable developer options for USB debugging? [migrated]
Android 8.0.0: can not enable developer options for USB debugging?
When I tap the "Developer Options", says:
Turn on Developer options first.
About Phone > Software Information > ...
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Can I launch debug with optional (maybe selectable) arguments?
I'm working on a project running with Lerna in VSCode
Now I'm thinking is there any configuration or extension that allow me to start a lerna project with optional and maybe selectable scopes.
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Remove "Silent Process Exit" folder from temp directory
How to disable processes the monitoring of silent process exits and get rid of the %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp\Silent Process Exit folder?
I looked it up and found that it has something to do ...
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How can we debug SSH logs apart from the verbose (-vvv) command?
SSH connection is getting closed by port 6655 when trying to SSH into the board using board's IP address using Putty. How can I debug the SSH logs and the process apart from the verbose command?
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How can I enable core dumps in initrd (dracut/Fedora based)?
I have a situation where a system that is intended to continue installation dumps core in initrd, effectively being unable to mount the root filesystem as a consequence.
As it tuned out, mdadm or lvm ...
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Is it possible to copy CSS line number in Firefox?
It is really annoying to remember and type in line numbers of CSS rules, maybe there is some way to navigate quickly to the right line directly in my IDE? I can't believe nobody has an issue like this....
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PyCharm (2021.1.3) debug mode opens new tab of same source file
Whenever I am debugging my code and hit a breakpoint, PyCharm jumps into a new tab opening the same file in which I've set the breakpoint. The second tab is then closed immediately, jumping back to ...
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Having a proxy machine with Windows KDNET kernel debugging?
I'm using KDNET to debug a Windows kernel driver on a second laptop via Ethernet cable. It works by directly plugging the Ethernet cable from the host to the target laptop. The process is described in ...
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Can I debug with python and GDB my microcontroller?
I would like to ask, if exist a library in python so I can write a tool to debug my controller with GDB and I could implement a way to read some addresses and draw a graphic or something similar?
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How to fix explorer freezing when accessing usb?
very often my explorer freezes when accessing usb (sometimes I have to restart it, sometimes the not responding goes away in a few seconds) and today was the worst case (might have been cause i was ...
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How to find which process has open my cdrom drive
I am on a Debian OS and recently my CDROM drive opens by its own at random times. I read this DVD drive opening automatically and
sudo setcd -s /dev/sr0 gives me:
/dev/sr0:
Auto close tray: set
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How to find out what is causing DokuWiki to be unable to save after edit?
This is happening only with one single page, even when only adding/removing a single character. All other pages can be edited & saved.
localhost is Apache on Windows, if that matters.
How can I ...
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Firefox autofill text field corruption
Occasionally, when I am typing into a text field on a website, or the search box in the browser, Firefox 89.0.2 on Linux Mint will display a drop-down that is corrupted. The corruption appears to be ...
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Running Qt app within WinPE
I'd say this is kind of inbetween both SuperUser and StackOverflow, but I am writing a GUI application using Qt that I would like to run within WinPE. I am well aware that WinPE is a very limited ...
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Slow excel document verbose status
I have inherited a set of large poorly optimised excel documents used to post process outputs from a bespoke matlab simulator and they are so slow. They're slow to open, recalculate, and save; and ...
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Using Visual Studio C++ remote debugging for Linux on a non-MSBuild, non-CMake project
Visual Studio has features to support cross-platform projects, allowing a developer to build, run and debug a Linux program from within Visual Studio, by connecting to and executing on either the ...
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How do I make a program I've previously opened have a cold run when my laptop has Intel Optane turned on?
The first time I open a program on windows it is slow to load then if I close it and open it again, it's fast to load. This suggests that windows is caching the frequently and recently used programs ...
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Using CURL to send multipart/alternative email WITH encoder=quoted-printable. How?
Below is an example of how I currently send a multipart/alternative with CURL. I write this email in a text editor, save it to a file and use CURL to send the whole thing.
To: "John Connor" &...
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What is a debug.log file and how can I get rid of it?
I see this annoying file at times appearing on my desktop and other folders. Here's the content of the one I just found:
[0104/221014.762:ERROR:directory_reader_win.cc(43)] FindFirstFile: The system ...
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How to prevent most disk writes before you trigger a "CrashOnCtrlScroll" crash
You've just enabled a useful developer feature named CrashOnCtrlScroll. You've enabled it on your primary machine, which you use every day. Not on a spare PC, and not on a virtual machine.
For ...
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What to do when "CrashOnCtrlScroll" doesn't seem to work
You've tried to enable a useful developer feature named CrashOnCtrlScroll.
You then tried to trigger a crash. Unfortunately, no crash happened.
What can you try now?
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How to debug Windows shutdown issues?
I have Windows 10 Home edition. Since the last update, the computer takes forever to shutdown. Here's what I tried:
Right-click Start
Select Windows PowerShell (Admin)
Click "Yes" on the ...
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How can I start my network log in Safari right from the launch?
So far I have seen how I can use the Developer menu in Safari in order to analyze my network traffic and how I can preserve the logs. But I have to re-open my browser very often. Therefore I want to ...
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How to identify which Chrome extension is redirecting traffic?
By chance I noticed that sometimes when I access bookdepository.com I get redirected to a strange URL before landing on that page. Apparently some rogue extension is hijacking the request to first ...
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How to Set A secondary Debugging software in Windows 10 TaskManager Debug
I would like to know if there is a way to add a secondary
debugging software, to the right click context menu
of the TaskManager, Prefferably SublimeText Editor 3,
or any other similar software, ...
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How to debug a keyboard's keys matrix row and column and microcontroller?
I was wondering how you can find the "address" of a key on a keyboard, that usually gets sent to a microcontroller on the motherboard, probably.
As example, these addresses can be called &...
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Unable to install windows debugging tools on windows 7, it says it needs .NET Framework 4, but won't let me install it
Unable to install windows debugging tools on windows 7, it says it needs .NET Framework 4, but won't let me install it
I wanted to analyze a BSOD, so I looked https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-...
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Access denied removing `__debug_bin` in Visual Studio Code
After debugging a go program, the __debug_bin file is leftover and is not getting removed, throwing an access denied error. I tried running VSCode with admin privileges but it's the same.
I would like ...
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View details of connection error in Firefox
When Firefox cannot connect to some server, I want to view the actual error instead of some "user-friendly" message such as this, which is not helpful at all:
Hmm. We’re having trouble ...
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Visual Studio Auto Change Debug/Release Configuration?
A week ago something broke in my Visual Studio.
Before I was building release and debugging almost at the same time. I pressed F6 to stop debugging and build release version ("bin\Release"). ...
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Getting This site can't be reached after doing Manual Proxy settings in wifi on Andoid/IOS device
I am trying to do proxy configuration in Redmi Note 7 Android 9. I have connected my Macbook and Device to the same wifi network, after doing manual configuration for Proxy IP address:192.168.XX.XX, ...
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ADB-like thing for Windows 10?
My actual aim is to find out what causes freezes occurring on a HP ProBook 450 G3 about once in a week (no reaction to any keystrokes except power button; however there is obvious activity, and the ...
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Bizarre shutdown on a very specific task
I stumbled upon a program (OPENFACE offline facial landmark detector) that shuts down (hard power off) my computer within 20 seconds. Obviously this is not that programs' fault- I experienced same ...
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MS Excel 365 Not Sorting
I have recently started experiencing a weird bug with excel, for some reason it has stopped sorting columns. It does not matter the way I try to sort, it just does not do it, however, filtering does ...
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Firefox won't open some web sites
I am running Firefox 74.0 on Linux Mint. Since v73, I have been facing the problem that some web sites will open very slowly (e.g. github.com) while others will not open at all (e.g. www.elster.de), ...
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Wireless keyboard occasionally stops typing... and then types every character it didn't type at once when shook
My logitech keyboard stops working every 5-20 minutes. During the time it stops working, if I type on it, even typing hundreds of words, as soon as I vigorously shake the keyboard, everything I had ...
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Cannot connect to MacOS Mojave via VNC from Windows 10
I am trying to connect to my MacOS Mojave via VNC. I have enabled "Remote Management" in "System Preferences" > "Sharing" and added me and/or all other users to the users that are allowed to have ...
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How do I spoof a url for debugging purposes?
I want to replace the source of a URL with another one (for example, replace a .js file reading "alert(1)" with "alert(2)"). Are there any tools that allow me to spoof the source of a URL for some ...
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Very high CPU usage by explorer.exe constantly (something to do with Windows.Storage.Search.dll)
The problem started a few days ago and now it gets high to sometimes 12% and some time to 45% CPU usage. It doesn't start immediately but after a little while if you terminate explorer.exe and start ...
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"Authentication is required to refresh the system repositories"
A few months ago, I updated Debian to 10. (I believe I'm using Wayland and GNOME?) Among the several problems that suddenly started occurring is the following:
Once in a while, I'll come back to my ...
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Task Scheduler runs a missed task unexpectedly on a computer that is running Windows 10
Here is my case:
i have set a Task to Disable Network adapter at 8:00:00 pm and Enable Network adapter at 8:00:15. It works like charm but if the laptop is turned off and i turn it on at 8:30 then ...
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how to install deepfreeze after force defreeze
i installed deepfreeze on windows 10 pro.
i promptly forgot the password.
prehaps i should have done something else.
out of desparation is booted into the bios and set to clock to three months from ...
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Cannot open chrome on Windows 10
I have used chrome normally on my PC for years, but now when I click the sidebar icon, desktop shortcut, and even when I run as admin from Windows Explorer, literally nothing happens. I tried opening ...
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How to simulate WebSocket failure on a macOS browser?
I often deal with WebSocket failures, and debugging fixes is hard because I have not found a good way to simulate them. A lot of Linux tools are no longer available because macOS has now transitioned ...
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How to debug a web page that doesn't work on mobile but works when using chrome remote debugger? iOS shows "Can not decode raw data"
I have a web page that works on desktop chrome and IE, and works correctly in mobile emulation in Chrome.
However, it shows only a blank white page on android, and in iOS shows "Can not decode raw ...
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VS Code Haskero debug configuration on Ubuntu
I am trying to configure VS Code for Haskell. I use Haskero extension, which works great for code navigation, highlighting etc. However, for some reason when I try to start a debugging session I ...
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How to debug node js applications
I have a nodeJS app It queries the Database(mysql) and makes certain API calls. On a load test two things happen:
It just stops responding for some users
The variables for some users are overwritten ...
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