Bug#949710: /usr/bin/plasmashell: segfaults sporadically but only when using app dropdown menu

[Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org>]

Hello Sarah,
I am sorry, but the given information might not be enough
for the maintainers to solve the crash.

Usually when a segfault happens in 'dmesg' output should
appear two lines about this event. Maybe you could forward
these to the report too.

If it is possible to install systemd-coredump a backtrace
would be automatically added to the journal, which could
be viewed by 'journalctl --no-pager'.

'coredumpctl gdb' could also show these information and if
the package gdb is also installed a '(gdb)' prompt should
appear, where the command 'thread apply all bt full'
should provide detailed information where the crash happened.

This information would be much better if the package
plasma-workspace-dbgsym and maybe some for shared libraries
get installed from the repository described here [1].
(If output gets too much pages, maybe attach as file.)


Kind regards
Bernhard

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace#Installing_the_debugging_symbols