Bug 47652 - Provide stacktraces for crashes in existing bug reports
Summary: Provide stacktraces for crashes in existing bug reports
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 46892
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard:
Keywords: difficultyBeginner, easyHack, topicQA
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-03-21 07:00 UTC by Björn Michaelsen
Modified: 2016-02-18 16:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Björn Michaelsen 2012-03-21 07:00:21 UTC 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport#How_to_get_backtrace_.28on_Linux.29

describes how to get a stacktrace for a crasher. If you can reproduce the crasher of an existing bug and it is missing a stacktrace, it is of great help to add the stacktrace to the bug.
Comment 1 Florian Reisinger 2012-05-18 09:26:00 UTC 
Deleted "Easyhack" from summary.
Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2012-06-19 07:42:33 UTC 
Windows users:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/How_to_get_a_backtrace_with_WinDbg

This article describes step by step how to get a backtrace in WinDbg (Windows debugger tool). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppBTs215yc

Report a crash in LibreOffice like a pro screencast 

My contributions:
http://tinyurl.com/backtraces
Comment 3 Björn Michaelsen 2013-10-04 18:48:01 UTC 
adding LibreOffice developer list as CC to unresolved EasyHacks for better visibility.

see e.g. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4076214.html for details
Comment 4 Caolán McNamara 2014-09-28 15:19:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46892 ***
Comment 5 samtuke 2015-05-21 14:15:56 UTC 
This link no longer leads to stacktrace instructions:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport#How_to_get_backtrace_.28on_Linux.29

Where can the instructions be found?
Comment 6 Michael Stahl (allotropia) 2015-05-21 15:36:25 UTC 
how to get a backtrace on Linux, Windows or Mac is documented on this page:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport/Debug_Information
Comment 7 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-16 05:24:22 UTC 
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack DifficultyBeginner TopicQA)
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Comment 8 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2016-02-18 16:37:29 UTC 
Remove LibreOffice Dev List from CC on EasyHacks
(curtailing excessive email to list)
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