From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 1:25:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F68537B404 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:25:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackbox.pacbell.net ([64.166.86.21]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GPT009TLJI0XB@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:25:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mikem@localhost) by blackbox.pacbell.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0C9PgR35888; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:25:42 -0800 (PST envelope-from mikem) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:25:41 -0800 From: Mike Makonnen Subject: Re: Sylpheed dumps core when starting In-reply-to: <20020111230011.S92436-100000@trittico.fiddi.com> To: Dave Runkle Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200201120925.g0C9PgR35888@blackbox.pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd5.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <200201112035.g0BKZOx91746@blackbox.pacbell.net> <20020111230011.S92436-100000@trittico.fiddi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 23:02:07 -0800 (PST) Dave Runkle wrote: > > Thank you, Mike, very much for this info. It's not nearly so > important for me to get Sylpheed up and running as it is for me to > learn this debugging process. Your clear description should make it > easy for me to do so. > > Thanks very much! > Dave You're welcome, and I hope it helps. > # gdb /program /path/to/corefile Upon rereading my reply I think I should clarify that /program is the one you compiled with the debuging symbols enabled. Or you can just type % gdb and specify the core and symbol files as follows in gdb itself: (gdb) symbol-file /path/to/sylpheed.debug (gdb) core-file /path/to/core There's usually a steep learning curve associated with gdb. Some searches on google can help you find usefull information on how to use it. The following URL for instance: http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/info2www?(gdb)Top cheers, mike makonnen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message