Re: Capturing traces guide

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 05:53, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:40:35PM -0500 or thereabouts, David Kennedy wrote:
> > I've included a new page on b.g.o which explains how to capture stack
> > traces. I've wished many times for such a page when I was needinfoing a
> > bug with "Please capture a stack trace", so I'm sure other people will
> > find it useful as well.
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/getting-traces.cgi
> > 
> > Let me know if you have any suggestions,
> 
> Mention that for some programs, you need to be root to
> do this. gnome-games applications are an example. 
> 
> I was quite startled to find that neither bug-buddy nor
> gdb at the commandline produced anything useful with 
> gnome-games crashes.
> 
> This is because something (score files?) is SUID or runs
> as user 'games' or some such thing. You need to use sudo 
> or su to get it to produce anything useful.
> 
> Don't know other examples, but I imagine there's a few.

I think this is actually the only one in GNOME, at least. But probably
still worth mentioning if we can do it in a way that doesn't distract
too much from the body of the text. Sounds like Footnote Time[1] to me.
:)

Luis


[1]as only gnome can do it