[Sugar-devel] debugging weird Activity startup errors

[Daniel Drake]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm testing locally a scratch build of Abiword 3 with the intent of having
> it in Fedora for F-20 and hence SoaSv10 but I'm getting a near useless error
> in the Activity log of:
>
> Terminated by signal 11, pid 1142 data (None, <open file '<fdopen>', mode
> 'w' at 0x251bd20>, dbus.ByteArray('ef47d2e4dc6551ba96f6ceded9023243ea4ee519'
> , variant_level=1))

Signal 11 is a segmentation fault, i.e. a hard crash.

Run it in gdb with:

    sugar-launch -d org.laptop.AbiWordActivity

(not sure if I have the activity ID correct there)

When it crashes soon after, run "bt" at gdb prompt.

The output will give us some idea of what is going wrong.

Daniel