Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 18:14 -0600: > Recently I agreed to acquire a backtrace using gdb on > gnome-terminal. I had reported it crashing under a certain > situation. I'm not skilled at debugging, but gnome-terminal is > important to me, so I agreed. The work did not go well. Things went > from mildly annoying to bad, and then to very bad, and to much > worse. I reached a point where my system was unusable. So unusable > that I could not ask for help via email. > > This project of making re-installation less difficult is being done in > the expectation that I will crash my system again while helping to > find a bug in software that is important to me. If I do this project > well, I'm sure it will help others to see there way clear to helping > Debian in debugging user reported bugs. Certainly, and hopefully you will have a (long) while to do the project well before the scenario in the first quoted paragraph above happens again! ;)
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