On Friday, October 08, 2010 10:39:14 am Michael Stahl wrote: > hello Hugo, > > On 08/10/2010 07:47, Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote: > > Hello, > > Since a couple of weeks, open office crashes badly in kde and using > > oxygen from trunk. It is apparently somewhere in the oxygen code. My > > best guess is that open office passes some null pointer to the style and > > I did not protect the code against it. > > If this is the case that should be pretty easy to fix except that ... > > ... I have no idea how to get a useable backtrace from the crash. > > > > Only thing I get is this automatic recovery thingy popping up, but no > > core dump, no debug output, nothing. Can someone give me (or point me > > to) instructions to get any of the above ? Having none of these infos > > makes debugging very difficult. > > i think that is the expected behavior for end users :) >
I agree. Was asking on a dev POV :) > well, the easiest would be to just attach gdb to the running soffice.bin > process. > this may run into trouble if OOo crashes at startup. > for crashes during startup, you can try to run soffice.bin directly, or, > in case that doesn't work for you, modify the "soffice" wrapper script to > run gdb (near the bottom, at comment "execute soffice binary"). > > gdb should catch the signal (whatever it is) that is raised on crashing. > if you can get OOo to use your KDE libraries built with debug information, > then that should give you a hint where it crashes with the usual "bt" > command. > > or did i misunderstand you and your main problem is actually that you > cannot reproduce the crash yourself? No no you understood right. I can reproduce (quite accurately and systematically) the problem :) Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll do that ! Hopefully we'll have this fixed soon ... Hugo > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Hugo > > > > (Oxygen Developer) > > regards, > michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
