A KDE application crashed and I want to file a bug report at http://bugs.kde.org, but the backtrace in the KDE Crash Manager is “useless”. What can I do?
DrKonqi . To get backtraces from crashing applications on Solaris you need to run them in gdb or use Dtrace (Solaris 10). Additionally most of the Solaris binary packages are not compiled with debugging information enabled, so you will probably have to recompile them first: – To enable debugging support in a KDE port, build it with WANT_KDE_DEBUG defined. You can set it on the commandline (example: make -DWANT_KDE_DEBUG && make install or put it into /etc/make.conf (WANT_KDE_DEBUG=YES. A similar switch exists for enabling debugging symbols in QT: WANT_QT_DEBUG. Note that those switches ONLY work in the ports of the main KDE module ports like kdebase, kdemultimedia, arts, etc. They will not work in ports of 3rd party KDE apps like for example kmldonkey or kbear. – To run an application in gdb, do: gdb /path/to/application. This will give you a prompt: (gdb) You can run the program now by typing run: (gdb) run Then you make the program crash. You will be returned to the prompt. Type bt:
