It's my guess that you don't want -d, as that puts in strace debugging information. As in, information useful to the developers of strace.
What might be more helpful is the -f or -ff flags. These flags tell strace to follow all sub processes as well, not just the first script process. For example $ strace -f thunderbird > thunderbird_trace.txt ** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- thunderbird get stucked few seconds after start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571117 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs