How to find out if a shared library has Debug symbols

We had some problems with debugging on a remote system and did some searching on the Internet to find out how to ensure that the library indeed has debug information. 

This is the command that can be used:
objdump --syms ... | grep debug

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3284112/how-to-check-if-program-was-compiled-with-debug-symbols

Solved: Failed to start program. Path or permissions wrong?

Got this error in Qt: "Failed to start program. Path or permissions wrong?" after adding a new drive in our linux developer image in VM-Ware and moving our trunk to it. According to a lot of resources on the Internet the cause should be that the user don't have execute permission. But the user did and there were no difference when using root.

Found out that it was possible to check if mount was set to: noexec by using mount command and it was noexec although according to the GUI in mountmanager it was exec.
http://forum.softpedia.com/topic/980864-probleme-cu-permisiuni-folder/

Found out that this issue could be solved by doing a remount:

sudo mount -o remount,exec /tmp

http://askubuntu.com/questions/311438/how-to-make-tmp-executable

After the remount the error disappeared.

SIGSEGV horror in the Qt project.

Had some problems in our project the application kept crashing with SIGSEGV error. We did not get a chance to catch the problem in the debugger making it hard to find. Found a neat trick on the internet, it's possible to add a handler for signals that catch the SIGSEGV and can print the stacktrace:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/77005/how-to-generate-a-stacktrace-when-my-gcc-c-app-crashes

#include <stdio.h>
#include <execinfo.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>


void handler(int sig) {
  void *array[10];
  size_t size;

  // get void*'s for all entries on the stack
  size = backtrace(array, 10);

  // print out all the frames to stderr
  fprintf(stderr, "Error: signal %d:\n", sig);
  backtrace_symbols_fd(array, size, STDERR_FILENO);
  exit(1);
}

void baz() {
 int *foo = (int*)-1; // make a bad pointer
  printf("%d\n", *foo);       // causes segfault
}

void bar() { baz(); }
void foo() { bar(); }


int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  signal(SIGSEGV, handler);   // install our handler
  foo(); // this will call foo, bar, and baz.  baz segfaults.
}

It's also possible to catch other signals:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/unix-signals.html

Qt connect is complaining that it can't find slot in super class when connecting sub class

Got an runtime error in the Qt application we are building, were connecting a signal with a slot, but when running the app we got this error message in the console:
Object::connect: No such slot mgccis::web::SuperClassWebservice::onReadyRead() in ServiceInterface\SubClassWebservice.cpp:37

The connect code in the SubClassWebservice looked like this:

connect(httpPost_parameterData_.data(), SIGNAL(readyRead()), this, SLOT(onReadyRead()));

There was a slot in the subClassWebservice, took a google search session to find out the real problem, found this on Stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4322224/qt-slots-and-inheritance-why-is-my-program-trying-to-connect-to-the-parent-inst

I've forgot to add the Q_OBJECT in the class declaration of the sub class.