Segmentation fault in 12.2 debian package...

[Jim Correia]

On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 10:40  PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:

> Ah, excellent!  Confirmation... now, how does one do a backtrace (never
> had the need)?

Some systems have automated crash reporting facilities. Absent that (or 
as an alternative to that) you run the target app (bogofilter) in the 
debugger. I didn't have time to debug the problem in full, so I 
generated a backtrace (and it appears the other David has a handle on 
the problem.)

5 second tutorial (for the 5+ second tutorial I'm sure you can find 
something more complete and/or the gdb docs will help)

%gdb
(gdb)file /usr/local/bin/bogofilter
(gdb)set args -p -I msg.bad
(gdb)run

<wait for crash>

(gdb)bt

Jim