[kde-freebsd] plasma-desktop and gdb crash

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

2009/10/11 David Naylor <naylor.b.david at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On logout I have been experiencing crashes of plasma-desktop.  This happens on
> KDE 4.3.[12].  This is using FreeBSD 8.0rc1.
>
> I am unable to get a backtrace due to gdb also crashing.  Here is the
> backtrace from the gdb.core file:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x2840f857 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #1  0x2840f7b6 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #2  0x2840e514 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.7
> #3  0x080c5875 in safe_strerror ()
> #4  0x080c59f3 in internal_verror ()
> #5  0x080c5a28 in internal_error ()
> #6  0x08166910 in _initialize_svr4_solib ()
> #7  0x08166bb6 in _initialize_svr4_solib ()
> #8  0x080d4661 in throw_exception ()
> #9  0x080d46b5 in catch_errors ()
> #10 0x080b891d in no_shared_libraries ()
> #11 0x080b8b2d in solib_add ()
> #12 0x0816b539 in ps_plog ()
> #13 0x08077484 in attach_command ()
> #14 0x080d3d72 in command_line_input ()
> #15 0x080d4661 in throw_exception ()
> #16 0x080d46b5 in catch_errors ()
> #17 0x080d47ad in catch_command_errors ()
> #18 0x08074322 in gdb_main ()
> #19 0x080d4661 in throw_exception ()
> #20 0x080d46b5 in catch_errors ()
> #21 0x08073aa1 in gdb_main ()
> #22 0x08073a5d in main ()
> (gdb) info thre
> * 1 process 100076  0x2840f857 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.7
>
> Is there anyway to get a backtrace of plasma-desktop upon crash and whats up
> with gdb?

In case you have compiled KDE with debug symbols, exporting
KDE_DEBUG=1 and (in case you're using bash) doing ulimit -c will make
KDE crashes generate a core file instead of launching DrKonqi, so it
might help.