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- Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 7:57:01pm UTC
- 21:19 < gardengnome> stuarta: so, your grief was that the apport stacktraces don't give you the
- thread id and the line number, right?
- 21:20 < stuarta> grief is a bit strong, but yes, the 3 line summary that gdb prints before it gives
- you a prompt
- 21:20 < gardengnome> is it just the lack of a summary? because it seems like the information does
- exist in the traces generated by apport
- 21:21 < gardengnome> let's look at this bug:
- 21:21 < gardengnome> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/107882
- 21:22 < stuarta> yeah, the info is there but it's much harder to use.
- 21:23 < gardengnome> ah, you found it yourself. i forgot which one of those traces i meant. :)
- 21:25 < gardengnome> so, all you need is that short summary?
- 21:25 < stuarta> that's a good backtrace to look at, there are 34 threads and the one that's dying
- is thread 1
- 21:26 < stuarta> there's 2 basic things that can be improved
- 21:26 < stuarta> 1. a build that allow the backtraces to have line numbers on all of the myth
- 21:27 < stuarta> 2. adding that 3 line summary
- 21:27 < stuarta> #2 isn't major, it's minor, but it cuts down debugging time by making it easier to
- find what's going wrong
- 21:27 -!- cattelan_ [[email protected]68.178.56.115] has quit [Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)]
- 21:28 < gardengnome> #2 is easy for this particular, i agree
- 21:28 < stuarta> if it's easy to add, it would be appreciated.
- 21:28 < gardengnome> #1 should be doable. #2 might require changing apport to make it act more
- gdb-like
- 21:29 < stuarta> to me, the apport output looks like the gdb output
- 21:29 < stuarta> that's why we are all suspecting it's using gdb behind the scenes
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