Anyone have a problem with me adding this as lyx-devel/BUGS?
I'll add a bit more as well.
Allan. (ARRae)
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Allan Rae wrote:
> If you have gdb installed you can do some helpful stuff for us that means
> you don't need to send core files -- we don't really want these
> anyway (my mailbox quota was competely overblown). Do this:
>
> gdb lyx | tee lyx-dump.txt
>
> once gdb starts you'll get a prompt:
> (gdb):
>
> at the prompt type:
>
> (gdb): run
>
> when lyx crashes type
>
> (gdb): bt
>
> then type:
>
> (gdb): up
>
> a few times till you get to LyX code. You'll know you are there when you
> start seeing lines of code printed after the prompt.
>
> (gdb): info locals
> (gdb): up
>
> repeat these steps a couple of times. Then type:
>
> (gdb): quit
>
> Send us the lyx-dump.txt file.
