On 28 November 2012 17:23, Colin Guthrie <mag...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: >> I have the same feeling with regardds to my computers. >> What I do in these situations is to install the debug packages, run the >> application in gdb, record the debug info, and then uninstall the debug >> packages. >> >> You don't have to keep the debug packages installed after you've collected >> the debug info. > > Longer term it would be nice to be able to have a service to upload the > core files and then generate the backtrace remotely.
libreport and the associated packages do that... But that's less needed now that we have minidebug info. What's more, even without debug packages, gdb will got a useful backtrace
