Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (180 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 of January 2009, Marc Benstein wrote:
> However, some sort of backtrace is provided with the current packages in
> Factory. Krash dialog does not say, "no debugging symbols found".
> Apparently this does not generate a useful backtrace. See,
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465921

 I can't answer your actual question, but I want to point out that this 
specific backtrace was not completely useless (although it wasn't completely 
helpful either). What makes backtraces useless are those lines with 
just "??", since then it just has to be guessed where the place is. The point 
however is that backtraces alone are not everything, and just a backtrace 
without debuginfo packages can be more useful than another backtrace with 
debuginfo if the first bugreport is e.g. reproducible or simple and the 
second one is not. Backtraces full of ??'s are almost always useless, but 
it's eventually up to the developer to decide if a backtrace is helpful or 
not.

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