Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Bug report: Crashes upon starting

[Eugen Dedu <eugen dedu univ-fcomte fr>]

On 05/07/15 19:37, a wrote:
> Ekiga,
>
> I use Lubuntu 14.04 (lxde, openbox).  Ihave installed Ekiga softphone 4.0.1-4 via synaptic package manager(first I 
> updated my system, checked ekiga, ekiga-dbg and sound-theme-freedesktop). I then start the software, get a 
> "Ekiga did not manage to set you network settings... Dialog box with a 'do not enter' traffic sign, and then 
> it crashes (all within 7 seconds).  I uninstall and then reinstall.  Same response.
>
> My system info:
> a a-NC210-NC110:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ uname -a
> Linux a-NC210-NC110 3.13.0-53-generic #89-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 20 10:34:28 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> When I enter in 'gdb ekiga' I get the following results:
> a a-NC210-NC110:/$ gdb ekiga
> GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.7.1-0ubuntu5~14.04.2) 7.7.1
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> Reading symbols from ekiga...Reading symbols from 
> /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/7d/fb7ed13bafea0be5b9bcf1095a853fb7ea2209.debug...done.
> done.
> (gdb)
> [1]+  Stopped                 gdb ekiga
>
> The only reason I quit and stop gdb is because it is at that point the command causes the terminal to just 
> 'hang'

I do not understand.  At (gdb) prompt, you must write run.  Cannot you 
do it?  This is shown at 
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Debugging_Ekiga#How_to_get_a_stack_backtrace_from_a_crash_or_freeze.

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Eugen