Re: Segfault

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Sunday 04 of April 2010 09:03:54 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?
> 
> 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?
> 
The messages are mainly useful for the developers, the states and reason codes 
can be found in the header file:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/include/NetworkManager.h#n165

Jirka