[Fwd: Apport]

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:45:18PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Will Woods <wwoods <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > I couldn't find details on a crash-report format specific to KDE but if
> > someone wants to point me at some existing work in this area I'd
> > appreciate it.
> 
> KDE has something called KCrash. KCrash intercepts crashes in KDE applications 
> and brings up a crash window with 2 tabs. The first tab is just the 
> usually "Sorry, I have crashed" boilerplate, the second tab is for backtraces: 
> switching to that second tab causes KCrash to invoke GDB and attach it to the 
> executable, obtaining a backtrace which is displayed in a text box on that tab; 
> there are 2 buttons on the tab: one to copy the backtrace to the clipboard, one 
> to save it to a file. And of course the dialog has a Close button. There is no 
> special format for crash reports, it's just a GDB backtrace. If GDB is not 
> installed, KCrash just displays an error that no backtrace could be obtained 
> because GDB is not installed.

GDB is a 6.5MB RPM.  If we're offering package group selections, such
as "volunteer bug reporter", which includes these tools, we could add
gdb to that group.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
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