Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:44:04PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Sascha 'saigkill' Manns
> <samannsml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello Mates,
> >
> > just a though: With KDE4.3pre we have an better Crashmanager. After an
> > Crash he creates an Crashlog and then you can submit an Bugreport to
> > KDE. My Idea now is, that we can make the depency to the debugsource
> > Package per default.
> > Some Guys, who are using openSUSE maybe don't know that without
> > debugsurce the Crashlog are bad.
> > --
> > Sincereley yours
> >
> > Sascha Manns
>
> Make sense, except the debugsource files are huge.  I have a T-1 here
> to download with and iirc it takes about 30 minutes to get them.  Not
> my favorite experience, but without them the crash logs are useless.
> :(
>
> Maybe the true factory set should have that dependency, but the
> version for 11.1 should not?

You actually would want the -debuginfo for better backtrace,
not the -debugsource.

However the recommended way is:

If you see a crash-> install debuginfo packages -> recreate the crash

Sometimes it might not be recreatable, but then you have debuginfos
installed and it will be a better backtrace the next time around.
(You could actually install the debuginfos before you get the backtrace
window in drkonqi, but this is a bit more complicated.)

Ciao, Marcus
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