Re: Segfault

[David Richfield <davidrichfield gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 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.

I've played around a bit, but it's remaining resolutely stable now :-( :-)

> 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.

All I found in there was:

** (nm-applet:1648): DEBUG: foo_client_state_changed_cb
** (nm-applet:1648): DEBUG: foo_client_state_changed_cb

Dunno whether that could possibly help...

Regards,

-- 
David Richfield
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