On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:45:18PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Will Woods <wwoods <at> redhat.com> writes: > > I couldn't find details on a crash-report format specific to KDE but if > > someone wants to point me at some existing work in this area I'd > > appreciate it. > > KDE has something called KCrash. KCrash intercepts crashes in KDE applications > and brings up a crash window with 2 tabs. The first tab is just the > usually "Sorry, I have crashed" boilerplate, the second tab is for backtraces: > switching to that second tab causes KCrash to invoke GDB and attach it to the > executable, obtaining a backtrace which is displayed in a text box on that tab; > there are 2 buttons on the tab: one to copy the backtrace to the clipboard, one > to save it to a file. And of course the dialog has a Close button. There is no > special format for crash reports, it's just a GDB backtrace. If GDB is not > installed, KCrash just displays an error that no backtrace could be obtained > because GDB is not installed. GDB is a 6.5MB RPM. If we're offering package group selections, such as "volunteer bug reporter", which includes these tools, we could add gdb to that group. -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
