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

[Robert_Gasch/PeopleSoft peoplesoft com]

Hi Tim,

yes, you're right. I tried to do this with one user, but the backtrace
was worthless (looks like the stack is getting clobbered) ...

Greetings
--> R




Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> on 03/04/99 11:40:38 PM

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




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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ciaoTJ

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