On Thu, 02 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > If they don't enable core dumps in the default config, the backtraces
> > aren't going to be terribly useful (or may not even exist), right?
> > Then the -dbg packages aren't going to help much either.
>
> Do you suggest that running gdb on a core dumps makes backtraces
> nicer?
I don't know actually; I've never used the libgnome SEGV handler.
> Currently, most backtraces we get are either generated by running
> the application from gdb and reproducing the bug or running a segv
> handler such as libgnomeui's (which spawns bug-buddy or debreaper
> IIRC).
It may be that the right thing to do is:
1) Segv handler saves the coredump if the user says to (or coredumps
are on)
2) bug-buddy or debreaper (or whatever)
a) prompts to install appropriate -dbg packages if they're not
already available;
b) backtraces the coredump from the segv handler using gdb (or
whatever)
c) appends that to the bug report
d) possibly stores the coredump somewhere for future
reference/debugging.
[With the caveat that I am not familiar with the gnome internals;
someone else can probably adapt the above more appropriately.]
Don Armstrong
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