This is the last post of the series showing interesting debugging tools, I hope you have found it useful. Don’t miss the custom scripts at the bottom to process GStreamer logs, help you highlight the interesting parts and find the root cause of difficult bugs. Here are also the previous posts of the series:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When This is useful to know why a particular package isn’t found and what are the default values for If we have tuned Sometimes it’s useful to use our own modified\/unminified files with a 3rd party service we don’t control. Mitmproxy<\/a> can be used as a man-in-the-middle proxy, but I haven’t tried it personally yet. What I have tried (with WPE) is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n :bulb: Pro tip: If you have to debug minified\/obfuscated JavaScript code and don’t have a deobfuscated version to use in a man-in-the-middle fashion, use http:\/\/www.jsnice.org\/ to deobfuscate it and get meaningful variable names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your computer has a “shared internet connection” enabled in Network Manager and provides access to a dependent device , you can control the bandwidth offered to that device. This is useful to trigger quality changes on adaptive streaming videos from services out of your control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This can be done using I use these scripts in my daily job to look for strange patterns in GStreamer logs that help me to find the cause of the bugs I’m debugging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the last post of the series showing interesting debugging tools, I hope you have found it useful. Don’t miss the custom scripts at the bottom to process GStreamer logs, help you highlight the interesting parts and find the root cause of difficult bugs. Here are also the previous posts of the series: GStreamer … Continue reading GStreamer WebKit debugging by using external tools (2\/2)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,13,2,1,7,12],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eocanha.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}pkg-config<\/code> finds the PKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW<\/code> env var, it explains all the steps used to resolve the packages:<\/p>\n\n\n\nPKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW=1 \/usr\/bin\/pkg-config --libs x11<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
PKG_CONFIG_PATH<\/code> when it’s not defined. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\nAdding directory '\/usr\/local\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/pkgconfig' from PKG_CONFIG_PATH\nAdding directory '\/usr\/local\/lib\/pkgconfig' from PKG_CONFIG_PATH\nAdding directory '\/usr\/local\/share\/pkgconfig' from PKG_CONFIG_PATH\nAdding directory '\/usr\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/pkgconfig' from PKG_CONFIG_PATH\nAdding directory '\/usr\/lib\/pkgconfig' from PKG_CONFIG_PATH\nAdding directory '\/usr\/share\/pkgconfig' from PKG_CONFIG_PATH<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
PKG_CONFIG_PATH<\/code>, maybe we also want to add the default paths. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\nSYSROOT=~\/sysroot-x86-64\nexport PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${SYSROOT}\/usr\/local\/lib\/pkgconfig:${SYSROOT}\/usr\/lib\/pkgconfig\n# Add also the standard pkg-config paths to find libraries in the system\nexport PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:\/usr\/local\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/pkgconfig:\\\n\/usr\/local\/lib\/pkgconfig:\/usr\/local\/share\/pkgconfig:\/usr\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/pkgconfig:\\\n\/usr\/lib\/pkgconfig:\/usr\/share\/pkgconfig\n# This tells pkg-config where the \"system\" pkg-config dir is. This is useful when cross-compiling for other\n# architecture, to avoid pkg-config using the system .pc files and mixing host and target libraries\nexport PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=${SYSROOT}\/usr\/lib\n# This could have been used for cross compiling:\n#export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=${SYSROOT}<\/pre>\n\n\n\nMan in the middle proxy for WebKit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\/etc\/hosts<\/code> entry to point the host serving the files we want to change to an IP address controlled by us.<\/li>ResourceRequestBase(const URL& url, ResourceRequestCachePolicy policy)\n : m_url(url)\n , m_timeoutInterval(s_defaultTimeoutInterval)\n ...\n , m_isAppBound(false)\n{\n if (m_url.host().toStringWithoutCopying().containsIgnoringASCIICase(String(\"out-of-control-service.com\"))\n && m_url.protocol().containsIgnoringASCIICase(String(\"https\"))) {\n printf(\"### %s: URL %s detected, changing from https to http\\n\",\n __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, m_url.string().utf8().data()); \n fflush(stdout);\n m_url.setProtocol(String(\"http\"));\n }\n}<\/pre>\n\n\n\nBandwidth control for a dependent device<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
tc<\/code>, the Traffic Control tool from the Linux kernel. You can use this script<\/a> to automate the process (edit it to suit to your needs).<\/p>\n\n\n\nUseful scripts to process GStreamer logs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
h<\/code><\/a>: Highlights each expression in the command line in a different color.<\/li>mgrep<\/code><\/a>: Greps (only) for the lines with the expressions in the command line and highlights each expression in a different color.<\/li>filter-time<\/code><\/a>: Gets a subset of the log lines between a start and (optionally) an end GStreamer log timestamp.<\/li>highlight-threads<\/code><\/a>: Highlights each thread in a GStreamer log with a different color. That way it’s easier to follow a thread with the naked eye.<\/li>remove-ansi-colors<\/code><\/a>: Removes the color codes from a colored GStreamer log.<\/li>aha<\/code>: ANSI-HTML-Adapter converts plain text with color codes to HTML, so you can share your GStreamer logs from a web server (eg: for bug discussion). Available in most distros.<\/li>gstbuffer-leak-analyzer<\/code><\/a>: Analyzes a GStreamer log and shows unbalances in the creation\/destruction of GstBuffer and GstMemory objects.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"