Win4Lin update to help diagnose session crashes
Leonardo Reiter
if anyone ever encounters a session crash (like when visiting web
sites with IE inside Win4Lin), we now have an update that can help
collect information to be able to diagnose this. You'll need to
download and install the latest 5.5 pre-release version (of course you
need a Win4Lin Pro/Ubuntu 5 license):
http://www.vbridges.com/vbdownload/dllinux.php?reltype=pre
then you will have to install 'gdb' (the GNU debugger) on your system
if it's not already installed:
Ubuntu:
use Synaptic to install 'gdb' package, or run the following command in
a terminal window:
sudo apt-get install gdb
Debian:
run the following command as root:
apt-get install gdb
RedHat/CentOS:
run the following command as root:
yum install gdb
SuSE/OpenSuSE:
use YaST to install the 'gdb' package
Mandriva (untested):
run the following command as root:
urpmi gdb
after that, run your session and reproduce the crash. Then contact
our technical support by visiting http://www.win4lin.com/ and clicking
the Support tab. When you get a response from technical support,
reply with as much detail on how you reproduced the crash as possible
(including any web sites you visited with Internet Explorer), and
attach your session's win4.log file to the email. The win4.log file
lives in the 'win4' folder of your home directory, or if you called
your session something else, it will be in the respective folder of
the same name of the session.
Hopefully this will help us diagnose some unexplained session crashes
that some of you have reported in the past.
Thank you,
Leo Reiter