PDB Not Working in 21.5.28

[Kenneth Loafman]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> First, please reproduce the problem, then immediately use M-x
> report-xemacs-bug to report the bug.  It provides a traceback of any
> keys you pressed, plus a lot of general information about your
> installation that may or may not be useful.  (Most importantly, on
> Debian-derived installations it's very likely that you have multiple
> versions of Lisp libraries installed; M-x report-xemacs-bug will tell
> us which ones XEmacs can *find*, and then which one it will actually
> *load*.)  Don't forget to check the keystroke traceback for passwords
> and other sensitive data.  Keystroke counts can sometimes be
> important; please obscure rather than delete such data.  We can hope
> that the keystroke sequence will provide a reproduction recipe.

See previous message

> In the report, answer the following questions (without going to
> inordinate amounts of effort, of course; if you already have multiple
> versions of Python and their corresponding pdbs installed, please do
> try them, but whether you should upgrade Python or something like that
> depends on how much effort that would be for you) and anything similar
> that you can think of:
> 
> 1.  pdb.el depends on an external program, pdb.  Where can we get it?
>     (In the following, pdb.el refers to pdb.el in XEmacs, and pdb
>     refers to the external program plus any support like Python.)
>     What version of pdb doesn't work?  Are there any that do?  Is it
>     possible that you have multiple versions of Python and pdb and
>     there's a version mismatch there?

pdb comes with the Python distribution, currently Python 2.5.

> 2.  Does pdb work from the command line?

Yes

>     Does it work from an M-x shell buffer in XEmacs?

Yes

> 3.  Did pdb.el ever work?
>     If so, what versions of pdb.el, the XEmacs package containing it,
>     and XEmacs worked?

It worked in the 21.4.* versions supplied by Ubuntu.

> 4.  What version(s) of Python don't work?
>     Do you know any that do?

2.4 and 2.5 both fail under Xemacs 21.5.28.
Don't know about prior versions.

...Thanks,
...Ken