From 2b80ee5e648b7b1001119c74c9b416dea217f9e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:59:00 +0100
Subject: explain how to get a stack trace

---
 perl-install/install/share/gdb-inst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'perl-install/install/share/gdb-inst')

diff --git a/perl-install/install/share/gdb-inst b/perl-install/install/share/gdb-inst
index 84c2db9bf..d5ab6c6ca 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/share/gdb-inst
+++ b/perl-install/install/share/gdb-inst
@@ -1,2 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-exec gdb -q --args perl /usr/bin/install2
\ No newline at end of file
+cat <<EOF
+You can now type "run" in order to start the installer from within the debugger.
+If it segfaults, you can:
+- go back to tty2 by pressing Alt+Ctlr+F2.
+- type "gcore" in order to generate a core file
+- type "exit" to go back to the shell.
+- you can then:
+  o either plug a USB key to your physical/virtual machine and copy the
+    core.XXXX file on it
+  o copy it to /mnt if you already passed the partitionning step ;
+    you can later retrieve it from another OS (dual boot) or using guestfish if
+    it's a virtual machine
+
+On a real Mageia system, you can then install the needed debuginfo packages and
+get a proper stack trace with GDB. You would probably need at least the
+following packages:
+  urpmi {glibc,perl{,-Glib,-Gtk2},glib2.0,gtk+2.0}-debuginfo
+
+
+EOF
+exec gdb -q --args perl /usr/bin/install2
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