OK I've tried to do a backtrace without much luck. As expected gftp crashed after deleting about 150 odd files but here is the output once I tried the backtrace from when it crashed:-
Continuing. [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 21672)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 21672) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 21677)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 21677) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 21689)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 21689) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 25026)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 25026) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 25652)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 25652) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 28070)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 28070) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 28079)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 28079) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 28116)] [Thread -1249481808 (LWP 28116) exited] [New Thread -1249481808 (LWP 28121)] Couldn't get registers: No such process. (gdb) backtrace Cannot fetch general-purpose registers for thread -1218373440: generic error Cannot fetch general-purpose registers for thread -1218373440: generic error -- gftp crashes while deleting many files https://launchpad.net/bugs/82101 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs