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diff --git a/gdb/backtrace.mdwn b/gdb/backtrace.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7411ad05 --- /dev/null +++ b/gdb/backtrace.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +When someone asks you to supply a backtrace (from a [[segmentation_fault]], for +example), here is roughly what you have to do. + +Run the faulting program like this: + + $ gdb --args PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS] + [...] + (gdb) run + [...] + [Segmentation fault.] + (gdb) bt + [...] + +(!) This will only provide useful information if the executable (and additional +libraries) contain debugging symbols, or those are available separartely. + +If you're one a [[Debian_GNU/Hurd_system|hurd/running/debian]], you'll have +to have the *hurd-dbg* package installed for debugging Hurd stuff, and perhaps +*libc0.3-dbg* as well if it's inside the glibc. |