Re: backtracing

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Soren Harward wrote:

> do this:
> 
> at prompt:
> gdb gnome-session
> 
> in gdb:
> run
> [wait for it to bomb]
> bt
> 
> then send us the output.

Yes, this is better than running gdb on the core dump file - sometimes
the stack is messed up and so it does not give us any real information.

But if you run the program directly in GDB this always works.

Martin

Btw: If the crashing program is printing somethink like `assertion failed'
     or some warnings before, you can give it a --g-fatal-warnings to
     make it abort after the message is printed.

     in gdb:
     run --g-fatal-warnings
     [...]

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