Re: When Apps Crash...

["Iain" <nodatadj webtribe net>]

Press ctrl-alt-F1 or whatever virtual terminal you started X from, and
there'll be an error message there. An app might be able to tell you itself
that it's crashed by connecting a signal to the SIGSEGV signal (actually,
I'm not too sure about this, I've not played with signals much), but I don't
think another program is able to listen for signals sent to other processes
(again, I'm probably wrong).

iain
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Tong <zztong@laxmi.ev.net>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 3:54 PM
Subject: When Apps Crash...


> I'm new to this list and to Gnome, so I'm sorry if this is being sent to
> the wrong place...
>
> I notice a number of applications crash when I try to use them. I'm
> certain its probably the application that is crashing, but it occurred to
> me it might be nice if Gnome would tell me when they crash.
>
>
>
> Scenario 1 - Netscape : I'm at my favorite search engine. I enter a
> search, the engine takes off and I know it will be 20 seconds before all
> the results are back, so I switch to another screen and work on something
> else briefly. I return to Netscape but... hey, where is it? What happened?
>
> Scenario 2 - I choose to run a program I've never run before off of a
> menu. I hear the hard drive spin. Nothing ever shows up, ever. The hard
> drive quits spinning. Is it a program that just runs in the background?
> Did it crash? Maybe it just has a small window? Is the windows outside the
> viewing area?
>
> Scenario 3 - I run an application. I decide to change the preferences, or
> use some dialog box, I hit "Okay", the main window disappears, I wait for
> it to reappear as it is probably working on what I just told it to do.
> Nothing ever shows up because it crashed.
>
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