#!/bin/sh 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