<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:44 AM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lbalbalba@gmail.com" target="_blank">lbalbalba@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Michael Meeks <<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com">michael.meeks@suse.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi John,<br>
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> You can always make it easier for a developer to solve - and the easier<br>
> it is, the more likely it is to get solved quickly. Ways to do that are:<br>
><br>
> * getting a stack-trace with full debugging symbols<br>
><br>
> * running valgrind with full debugging symbols and<br>
> attaching a trace.<br>
><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Sounds good, but I agree with John that better instructions are needed. I'm working on a new triage page and hopefully in there we can get someone to contribute incredibly precise, easy for noobs, instructions for every type of backtrace/debug. Right now they are really written by experts for experts (IMO). I would backtrace much more frequently if I could follow the instructions on how to do it. Every time I feel like I have to go on IRC and ask 100 questions.<div>
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</div>If this is the case, maybe pre-build binaries with full debugging<br>
symbols should be made available for download (more) easily: both for<br>
releases and daily master builds ? Also, a 'howto' on how to do this<br>
(on linux, with gdb, on windows, with windbg ?) would be nice to have<br>
?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think we have enough people packaging to make pre-built binaries for everyone. Plus, these are huge, my install is 22 gigs with all symbols on, not very good for packaging purposes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Joel</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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- John Smith.<br>
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