On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 02:54, Rob Lahaye wrote: > Darren Freeman wrote: > > > > How would we get a backtrace like that? Spawn gdb, tell it to attach to > > the current process, tell it to backtrace, save the output, all before > > dying? Would that even be possible? > > If you were considering to go into action when lyx is started the next time > after the crash, you could also consider the coredump as a starting point. > I'm not a gdb/coredump expert, but there must be a way to have gdb inspect > the details for the crash by examining the coredump file, print that out and > have this info forwarded to the lyx mailinglist. > > Rob.
Another tool in the toolbox =) But beware that some security-conscious systems disallow regular users to create a core file. I'm sure I saw it in the Linux security-howto. Have fun, Darren
