On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:38:45 AM Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am 26.01.2012, 01:02 Uhr, schrieb Lindsay Mathieson > > <lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com>: > > I'm trying to generate a useful bug report for kactivitymanagerd but > > can't > > > > seem to get a useful stack trace for it, all I can get is: > > "Application: KDE Activity Manager (kactivitymanagerd), signal: > > Segmentation > > fault" > > try > > gdb --args kactivitymanagerd --nofork > run > [wait for crash] > bt
got the crash on startup almost immediately this time and attached after the fact - dunno if thats useful for you but here's the trace from that. I notice that I can't load the debug symbols unless I start gdb with root privileges (sudo). Could that be why the kde debug tool is unable to load a stack trace? (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f853ff0d773 in __GI___poll (fds=<optimised out>, nfds=<optimised out>, timeout=<optimised out>) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87 #1 0x00007f853c8cdf68 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #2 0x00007f853c8ce429 in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0x00007f8541355ed6 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents (this=0xe63ce0, flags=<optimised out>) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:422 #4 0x00007f854078210e in QGuiEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents (this=<optimised out>, flags=<optimised out>) at kernel/qguieventdispatcher_glib.cpp:204 #5 0x00007f8541329cf2 in QEventLoop::processEvents (this=<optimised out>, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:149 #6 0x00007f8541329ef7 in QEventLoop::exec (this=0x7fff6e707470, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:201 #7 0x00007f854132e789 in QCoreApplication::exec () at kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp:1064 #8 0x0000000000405a14 in ?? () #9 0x00007f853fe5930d in __libc_start_main (main=0x405880, argc=2, ubp_av=0x7fff6e7076d8, init=<optimised out>, fini=<optimised out>, rtld_fini=<optimised out>, stack_end=0x7fff6e7076c8) at libc-start.c:226 #10 0x0000000000405a69 in _start () > [enter, enter, enter, ...] > detach > quit > > > Cheers, > Thomas > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe > >> << -- Lindsay >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<