fun with metacity segfaults on rawhide eeepc

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 17:59 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> I installed rawhide on an asus eeepc 901 last night... can't say its
> >> been the most enjoyable experience.
> >>
> >> But the big issue I'm seeing which is basically making X unusable
> >> seems to be because metacity is segfaulting (details below).
> >
> > Hi, please see:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
> >
> > And file a bug against metacity with the associated trace.
> >
> > (Someday we will finish http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CrashHandling
> > and this manual work will not be necessary)
> 
> OK, I can install debug packages and log tickets without issue but I
> have no idea given that its crashing as I login through GDM I have no
> idea how I'd add GDB to that.

What you can always do is get a core dump and use gdb on that later

ulimit -c unlimited

<let app dump core>

gdb /path/to/app core