Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Cool. Here is what it said: > > $file core.11377 > core.11377: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, > SVR4-style, from 'soffice.bin' > > However, GDB said it was not in executable format and that it did not recognize > the file type.
You need to run tell gdb both the core and the executable that cored. gdb /path/to/soffice.bin core. Then you generally get a backtrack and go from there. You're not likely to get a good backtrace though, since binaries from debian packages are stripped, so you will not be able to tell anything except the addresses of the functions in which it crashed. Sometimes you can rebuild the same binary unstripped and run gdb on that, but you have to be lucky for everything to be the same, or it won't work. Or if you're seeing lots of crashes, you can build an unstripped binary and use it, and wait for the next crash. Since a full backtrace with debugging information is a beautiful thing to have, we're planning to make packages that contain detached debugging information. Then if you got a crash or core dump, you could run gdb with this and get a good backtrace. We're not there yet though. -- see shy jo
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