[Mageia-bugsquad] Fwd: Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting

[Marja van Waes]

Just forwarding this mail, in case we decide to enhance 
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Debugging_software_crashes

(I don't think we have a useful example there)

Is it true that tv's method is wrong, or are they both good?




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] net_applet segfaulting
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 20:45:20 +0300
From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
Reply-To: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
To: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>


>
> Hello Shlomi - I installed what Thierry Vignaud suggested:
>
> Please:
> 1) install perl-debug glibc-debug perl-Glib-debug perl-Gtk2-debug
> gtk2.0-debug gdb

Looks fine.

> 2) run "gdb perl /usr/bin/net_applet"

That's wrong - it should just be "gdb perl".

> 3) type "run" to start it from the debuger

"run /usr/bin/net_applet".

> 4) type "bt" to get a backstrace once it segfaulted
> 5) paste the backtrace in a text file you'll _attach_ to a bug report
>