Ubuntu 11.10 Ocelot: how to get a backtrace with crashes?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 27 October 2011 Oct, silvio grosso wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have just installed Krita 2.4 beta 3 through the ppa calligra-neon-project  (for Ubuntu 11.10)
> 
> THANKS so much for your work!
>  Krita 2.4 looks magnificent on Ubuntu Ocelot - Unity Shell ;-)
> 
> I have been trying Krita 2.4 beta 3 BUT I can't get a way to get a Backtrace when Krita crashes...
> 
> How can I get them (sorry for this weird question, I am not a geek....)?
> 
> Just to give you an example: I have just reported this crash (Bug 285123).
> No matter how many times I crash Krita 2.4 through this bug, Ubuntu Ocelot never allows me to get this backtrace (in order to send it to you).
> 
> Is there some "package" I should
>  install to get them with Krita 2.4?
> With Ubuntu Maverick (Gnome 2.32) I always got a backtrace as soon as Krita 2.4 crashed :-)
> 
> Best regards and THANKS again in advance for your reply

For this crash, it's really hard to get a bracktrace, since it's an assert in Qt. I didn't get one by default either, so I had to run Krita in gdb:

> gdb krita
(gdb) run
... do stuff that crashes ...
(gdb) bt

and then I pasted the backtrace to the bug report.


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Boudewijn Rempt
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