Re: [Heroes] Re: Bug#169525: heroes-common: Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

[Ingo van Lil]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:21:21PM +0100, Christoph Claus wrote:

> > If it frequently happens to the original reporter (Christoph), a
> > backtrace or, even better, a core file would be of great help.
>
> Unfortunately, I am not a programmer, thus I don't know much about
> debugging. Could you explain to me what should be done or point me to
> an explanation?

Creating a backtrace is quite easy, if you have gdb installed. Just load
heroes by calling 'gdb heroes', type 'r' to run the program, wait until
it crashes and then type 'bt' to get a backtrace. Should be just a few
lines long.

> I read the debugging section of the GCC-Howto and set the core file
> size to unlimited. Unfortunately, there was no core dumped by the
> heroes-crash.

Strange. Did you run heroes from the same shell in which you also
entered the ulimit command? The command affects only the current shell.
Anyway, I just realized my gdb doesn't seem to be able to load core
files. I suppose, it's too old for my glibc. Gonna have to get a newer
version.

        Cheers,
           Ingo