Package: gobject-introspection Version: 1.49.1-2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/g-ir-scanner
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 While debugging bug 839397¹ I was put of for a long time by the slighly cryptic error message: Command '['./liferea', '--introspect-dump=/tmp/tmp-introspectrfirzef6/functions.txt,/tmp/tmp-introspectrfirzef6/dump.xml']' returned non-zero exit status -11 It took me until I looked at the python code of g-ir-scanner to see that what this tells me is that g-ir-scanner actually tried to run a command line operation (that I could manually try if I knew what the content of /tmp/tmp-introspect*/functions.txt was) which fails with exit status -11. Only after manual running the command I know that -11 means segfault (at least in this case). Could the error message be improved for non-python gurus? Also the "exit status - -11" isn't telling me as much as "segfault". Feel free to close as wontfix, I just needed to share my debugging frustration in a constructive manner. ¹ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839397 - -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gobject-introspection depends on: ii build-essential 12.2 ii libc6 2.23-5 ii libffi6 3.2.1-4 ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.49.1-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.49.6-1 ii python3-mako 1.0.4+ds1-1 pn python3:any <none> gobject-introspection recommends no packages. gobject-introspection suggests no packages. - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX8V0IAAoJEJxcmesFvXUKrtMH/3UOcNXLIWn3xLwPsAxTLaD7 0nFEnddiPOx9z5sNp++YXzjK3dRmuOtXJX7z8o2JXet/j3b++U1atiPyaOBFsQ/Y XfnkW+gfrIgyQiTf5pvHvWlgxsJPOKstru6BqntIYlWSUlhjTy6WHtbYTN239c0v CxwgnRwadb5HmMNkGH/PxOIP5HY5KZTKrZ80mRNgp3VOH+t/rWhTP4JXHFvRWNZf 2Eli0QmDZJSD7TbHTicGOpQ3hcqu9unJDlfiVlK9z4upndQlmiwgnO943mICuSOT KgV7/JVpJKgrRn19uQ8wK05rGFo4tyoiOj5yelufpy6npDqnnIAMqER+ae/OK00= =sUeG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
