[Kmymoney-devel] Trouble analyzing crash

[Fernando Vilas]

On Wednesday 30 December 2009 09:00:01 tonyb wrote:
> I'm implementing a new dialog which is not dependent on having an attached
> storage. However, it's crashing in the checkStorage() function in
> mymoneyfile.h. What I'm having a problem with is determining where it gets
> called from. I attach the crash report file; can anyone help me make sense
>  of it? Have I forgotten to set some debug variable or something? Or am I
>  just missing the obvious somewhere (wouldn't be the first time!)?
> 

I fought this for a little while on a differnt bug recently. What finally got it 
for me was to put a breakpoint in the MyMoneyException ctor. Then I ran the 
program until it was close to the step that crashes, had gdb attach to a 
running process and let it hit the breakpoint. (I saw this trick on PlanetKDE 
while I was working on it, so I can't take credit. Thanks go to that blog 
author for a neat trick.)

MyMoneyException is used a lot in determining what goes in some menus, so you 
will see a few false-positives, but the actual stack that crashes will be in 
there, too. Good luck.

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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