Segfault

[johannes amorosa]

I had my first segfault with profanity. Is there a way to send in the core dump or logfiles for debugging.

uname -a

Linux cell-ds-20 3.2.0-64-generic #97-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 22:04:21 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

profanity -v

Profanity, version 0.5.0dev.master.f44cf86

[Boothj5]

Hi.

There are a few things you can do:

To get more info in the logs at ~/.local/share/profanity/logs/profanity.log:

• Run with debug enabled "profanity -l DEBUG"  
  

To get a coredump:

• First build profanity again with debug enabled (gives more info in coredumps)
  
• ./configure-debug
• make clean
• make
• sudo make install (if you want to run from anywhere)
• Ensure your terminal session allows coredumps:
• ulimit -c unlimited
• And then run profanity
• After a segfault, you should find a file called 'core' in the directory you ran profanity from
• To view the coredump and the backtrace, you'll need gdb
• sudo apt-get install gdb
• To open the coredump in the directory, pass the executable and the coredump to gdb
• gdb ./profanity core
• And to view the backtrace
• bt

If you don't have time for all of that, the logs and steps to recreate would be helpful.

Thanks,

James.