Re: [gtk-list] Wanted: (specific) testing/debugging help

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 Robert_Gasch/PeopleSoft@peoplesoft.com wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have received some reports of people using my program (terraform) that it
> segfaults on their systems upon startup; a behaviour I can not reproduce on my
> machine. The specific configuration one user reported was:
> 
> SuSE 5.3
> Kernel 2.2.1
> egcs-2.91.57
> libc5
> GTK 1.2
> 
> although the unifying factor seems to be libc5 (I use RH5.2 which uses glibc).
> 
> Would someone with some development and debugging experience, who has a
> similarly configured box, be so kind as to try reproducing this and seeing
> what's going on? I usually try to fix my own bugs, but as said before, I can't
> reproduce this behaviour so I'm stuck (and I don't feel link reinstalling my
> whole machine just for this). The people who have reported this so far are not
> the types to dive into source code, so I'm hoping someone here can (and is
> willing to) help me out ... mail me for details ...

even if those people are no debugging geeks, most users are still able
to run a program from gdb and sent you the backtrace from a segfault.
have you tried to tell them to execute

</usr/src/terraform>$ gdb .libs/terraform
> r --sync
[trigger segfault]
> bt
[backtrace appears]
> q

and send you the remaining output?

> 
> Thanks a lot
> --> R
> 

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