Re: Getting traces for applets

[Elijah Newren <newren math utah edu>]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:02 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Looking at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/getting-traces.cgi, it seems there
> is no clear instruction on how to get stack traces for applets. Many
> reporter don't know how to get such traces, so maybe we should add
> something like this to the "Obtaining a stack trace using just GDB"
> section:
> 
> <new>If the program is an applet, right-click on the panel and add the
> applet.</new> Once the program is running, reproduce the crash and ...
> 
> What do you think?

Sounds good to me.  I say go for it unless you hear someone yell.  Can
you add instructions on how to get stack traces for gnome-session
crashes while you're at it?  The cvs file is
bugzilla/getting-traces.cgi.  Of course, we want
bugzilla-new/getting-traces.cgi to have the same info so that the
upgrade is smooth.


Elijah