No gdb?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Fri Dec 12 17:31:33 UTC 2008


Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've just been told
> 
> A Fatal Error Occurred
> The application KDE Daemon (kded4) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
> 
> It went on to say that it couldn't create a bug report, as gdb is not 
> installed.  Shouldn't that be installed by default?
> 
> Anne
> 

Feel free to file a bug to get gdb added to the KDE package group, enabled by 
default, but please don't make it a dependency.  Debuggers, especially ones that 
automatically attach to apps the user can cause to crash, are considered a 
security risk in certain environments.

-- Chris




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