Re: Problems debugging problems... formerly Re: Wyland is a disaster
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Przemek Klosowski
<przemek.klosowski(a)nist.gov> wrote:
Can anyone suggest ways of debugging this?
Run coredumpctl to see what processes crashed. There should be at least
a gnome-shell crash, maybe also a gnome-session crash, maybe also an
XWayland crash. Usually only the gnome-shell and gnome-session crashes
are interesting. Use 'coredumpctl gdb' to get backtraces for each crash
in gdb. Be sure to install the debuginfo via the dnf command that gdb
will suggest and then restart gdb each time, to get a high-quality
backtrace.
Once you have a backtrace, you have all you need for a quality crash
report. Skip Red Hat Bugzilla and go straight to upstream for best
results. The gnome-shell crash should be reported at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues (yes, it's a new
issue tracker, I'm afraid you just missed being first!). If there's
also a gnome-session crash, that should be reported at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-session.
Hope that helps,
Michael