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

[Ingo van Lil]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:38:10PM +0100, Christoph Claus wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Guess what? I tried four times, and never got it to crash :-(

Great, a Heisenbug. Just what we needed most. OK, another try: Start
heroes as usual and attach the debugger afterwards. Type 'ps -x | grep
heroes' to find out the PID (pick the lowest one, maybe you can also try
the others) and run 'gdb heroes PID'. Hopefully this works, I'm running
out of ideas.

        Cheers,
            Ingo