Sunstudio 11 locks the system up when debugging GUI code

Since I haven't seen any answers to this problem, here it is again. I have an application that is GUI driven. I am running Sunstudio 11 on Solaris 8/sparc. To debug the application I set a breakpoint and start the program in the sunstudio debugger, when the breakpoint is reached, execution stops. I click on sunstudio to start single stepping and then both sunstudio and the program I am debugging become unresponsive. When I click on the console the whole system become unresponsive and I have to rlogin from another machine to kill the programs.

Has anyone else seen this happen? Any ideas on what to try to kick these into becoming responsive again?

Thanks.

[681 byte] By [joshl] at [2007-11-26 8:40:45]
# 1

This sounds like the famous "X windows screen grab" problem.

http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN462

Your application uses a toolkit that probably supports some sort

of "synchronous" command line option to unlock the screen most of the time.

Here is another link:

http://sourceware.org/ml/bug-gdb/2000-09/msg00039.html

--chris

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