bugzilla advice.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 6 14:39:10 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:56 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > I have been roundly scolded for not using bugzilla so let me
> illustrate
> > my current problem with this technique.
> >
> > 1. Currently on my FC6 machine gnome-cd crashes with a segmentation
> > fault when run. No errors are placed in log/messages.. Exactly what
> > information can I send to bugzilla to allow this to be debugged. On
> the
> > other hand grip refuses to admit that the CD is available even
> though
> > its icon appears on the desktop. Again no error messages appear
> except
> > that the grip window shows nothing to play, so what bugzilla
> information
> > would be helpful.
>
> In general:
> 1. Get the crash trace. (strace)
> strace gnome-cd > gnome-cd-trace.log 2>&1
> 2. Try running gnome-cd under a debugger. (gdb)
> $ gdb gnome-cd
> > run
> <gnome-cd dies>
> > bt
> <copy the output from the terminal to the bug report>
> > quit
I files a bugzilla along these lines yesterday.
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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