Re: gnomecc problem

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I should note that backtraces on stripped binaries are not particularly
useful compared to backtraces from binaries with debugging information
included.  With stripped binaries, you just get meaningless memory
offsets, while with debugging information, you get function names and
parameter values.

To give the appropriate developer the maximum information, it would be
best if you could compile gnomecc with debugging information and make it
crash.

James.

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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, James M. Cape wrote:

> alanr@stateind.com wrote:
> > 
> > I have been trying to update my GNOME packages from what shipped with RH6 to the latest and greatest. Everything seems to be working okay expect gnomecc. It will not run. When I try to run it from a terminal window I either hang the terminal session or get "Segmentation Fault (core dumped)" messages. The binary itself seems okay because I can issue a "gnomecc --help" and get help messages and "gnomecc --version" yields "Gnome desktop-manager 1.0.5." Any suggestions?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Alan Reynolds
> > areynolds@geocities.com
> 
> Run
> 
> gdb /usr/bin/gnomecc
> 
> Then, from inside gdb, run 
> 
> r --sync
> 
> Then, when it crashes, type
> 
> bt
> 
> then send a new e-mail message to <submit@bugs.gnome.org>, with a
> subject describing this, and the first two lines of the message being:
> 
> Package: control-center
> Version: 1.0.5 (RH6)
> 
> Then follow these two lines up with a description of your system, and
> the output of the commands you typed above.
> 
> This will submit a bug report to the package maintainer for gnomecc.
> 
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
> 
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