-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:20:54 +1100 Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > t.j.duch...@gmail.com writes: > > > I have a user question on how to file a proper Debian bug report under > > certain circumstances. > > Thank you for taking the care to find out what information is needed for > a good bug report. > > Your specific use cases seem to involve non-free software (Steam games > are, I assume, non-free in general, though there may be some exceptions) > so that makes it particularly difficult to diagnose problems. > > If there are reproducible behaviours, it can be helpful to run the > program under ‘strace’ and reproduce the behaviour, to get an extremely > verbose log of system calls being made at the time when the behaviour > occurs. > > When that is reproducible, it might be helpful to have two separate > ‘strace’ log outputs: one from the environment where you don't get the > buggy behaviour, one where you do. >
I watch the mesa-dev ML. What you want to do is to log and post from both systems the following: 1. Xorg log (Typically called Xorg.0.log) from /var/log. 2. Run the program dmesg from the cmdline and log it to a file. HINT: Redirect to a file with > FILE. As in: PROG > FILE.txt 3. Install apitrace (cmdline command: apt install apitrace ) 4. Run the program wile apitrace'ing it. (Normally you run the command in the terminal wine example.exe) COMPRESS the output it will be HUGE!!! HINT: apitrace wine example.exe | xz -9ecvCsha256 > FILE.txt. 5. Uname -a (This, in particular, will give you the kernel version.) 6. Programs and versions (wine, mesa, llvm, xorg, example.exe, libdrm). Typically you run from the cmdline: PROG --version; apt show PROG. The proprietary game will not accept this method of course. 7. Fill out a bug with this info at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/. Use attachments liberally with the add attachment feature. You can comment and attach several times for 1 bug so not everything has to be in the first post. Describe your problem throughly. Don't post screen shots unless you have to. See these for examples: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91251 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73739 Be aware that they might ask you to try a custom kernel/mesa/etc.. If you cannot do this they might need a copy of the game in question. They are friendly and will walk you through the above if you ask them to. No, I have not run the above to check for errors but it looks correct and I did check the man pages. Thanks for your report, David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEL2N7+xWmVOJDQxWGm3XCrhg2YP8FAlxmQeEACgkQm3XCrhg2 YP/Hlg//fjfjBZtQzs+JN5k14mGg1/TagkS6Q+ZB7fEgJC088/Vm0hcSnMlEZUsS hffDU/UUG2sVbrqfHBLpmnGNZ5zTwQBUzJBujYUvoH4XFj0TWLA3zQW7MFPjO/kO oZFNiBv0nHpJByT5ehVdRJT86fP4HYtPAm9WDBP7f05bAZdu48aMW3vD2QiZeg0Q jA6Atv9He3AN7BXDJ+AGh8EpaKXDMOoAuk9bj+OXf81cthArXZaQ3rdqksVfqx0P 7Eoofg2dAS1sTNiq42h1PDpLG9GIpp+asYT2XIkwT9wJLnh8dvE6nKy8vVx4UNo5 GcqfMFPGxU3NGVoUqcXMCGPbvTZL/q6HQz1+A0gAfrh+/ikZPFviBTqjwdKnn8uu 5DZ7K9P8qtD2iB1U8rcjX6JFLmkSVnV9AhViT9xlHYoXxyv2HWDpBtiCJm8NVtQ2 W9quZJqlV/3vA7ncEH46LQCpS3Q+ZKqe83nwZxJ8ez7fFaH0Li9gWsveGmS99INn EILNtq2X5leoS5vGuPZMCgo33VoLdeKwHR5iiTOoktjGP4pXuCvGi6mthLYWwrRP Q68cCiZ7CouPWBlXdY6Emr9+zTGayrysUgXhubFiWjB8Zf8l8EqKk6RrmrIimsOP gnEPCNHPI11NDdOQ2Z4UlF53YUtkgXildR/0DKv1HxsYAyXnKmA= =aVk3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
