Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “debugging”

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Ksplice ยป Source diving for sysadmins - System administration and software blog

Fantastic article about how to effectively dive into the source to debug problems with a system in production. A bit of a misleading title: anyone who deploys open source code should know how to do this stuff.

(code, debugging, howto, opensource)

Ian Bicking: a blog :: Re-raising Exceptions

Everything you ever wanted to know about re-raising exceptions in Python.

(code, debugging, exceptions, programming, python, traceback)

ModPython/Articles/ExpatCausingApacheCrash - Graham's Project Wiki

Great writeup of *why* expat can cause mod_python to segfault. The mod_php + mod_python crashes that some Djangonauts see happen for exactly the same reason, so the debugging advice here is useful there, as well.

(apache, debugging, django, expat, modpython, python, segfault)