Re: Segfault

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 09:03 +0200, David Richfield wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running NetworkManager Applet 0.7.996 (stock standard Ubuntu
> Karmic version).
> 
> I've got a new USB wifi dongle that I'm using to connect my laptop to
> my ADSL router.  Today it went down for no apparent reason, and when I
> looked in /var/log/syslog, I found this line:
> 
> Apr  4 08:05:15 davelaptop kernel: [  757.375313] nm-applet[2022]:
> segfault at 64 ip 0806d850 sp bfbaa3d0 error 4 in
> nm-applet[8048000+53000]
> 
> What can I do to give a good bug report?

If you can possibly reproduce the issue and get the set of steps that
reproduce it, that's good.

Otherwise, looking in ~/.xsession-errors can sometimes give more info
about why the applet died.  That's where any applet output goes, and it
may contain logging of critical errors from right before the applet went
away.

Dan

> Another thing: how do I interpret the log messages?  I can't find a
> man page or any useful documentation in
> /usr/share/doc/network-manager.  I keep seeing things like:
> 
> Apr  4 08:05:15 davelaptop NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan12): device
> state change: 8 -> 3 (reason 38)
> or
> Apr  4 08:05:15 davelaptop NetworkManager: <info>
> (00:23:B4:25:E4:39): device state change: 3 -> 1 (reason 36)
> 
> Where is a list of what the different states are, and what the reasons mean?
> 
> Regards,
>