Bug#423921: crash when starting xgalaga
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:14 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> > Joey wrote:
> > > This is the second regular X app I've seen crash the X server, this time
> > > it's xgalaga, which crashed it once when it was starting up in
> > > fullscreen mode, which switches to a smaller video mode.
> >
> >
> > Confirmed, crashes hard every time for me. Crashes so badly in fact
> > that a gdb log comes back with nothing (freezes before it gets a chance
> > to write to disk).
>
> Wow! That's much more reproducible than my crash. Same backtrace in the
> log?
>
Heh well that's the awkward thing... the crash is so hard that there's
no time to write anything to the log. So my log is empty :( I ran
xgalaga using "gdb xgalaga 2>&1 >xgalaga.gdb", starting (and crashing)
the program by typing "run" in blindly.
What's the best way to proceed under this sort of circumstance? It's
not obvious to me that xserver-xorg-core-dbg will be any more successful
at recording the log before the freeze.
Drew
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