[BRLTTY] some strange issues with brltty 5.3.1

[kendell clark]

hi
I think this is where I had trouble last time. I couldn't find a core
file. I kept running into references to coredumpctl, but couldn't figure
out how to get systemd to cough up the core file. When brltty crashes
I'm not seeing a core file anywhere. There's a /proc/kcore file, but
that's the file representing my memory, not the core file of brltty. Can
you give me some pointers that might help me find the core file? I can
do the backtrace myself once I find it.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/05/06 at 21:53 -0500]
>
>> As soon as I get a command to generate a backtrace i'll do it and attach that 
>> to an email to the list as well.
> You'll need to be sure you're getting a core file from the crash. Then:
>
>    linux> gdb /path/to/brltty /path/to/core
>    gdb> bt
>    gdb> q
>    linux>
>
> Wrapping the whole thing in a script session will make output capture easy. So:
>
>    linux> script
>    script> gdb
>    gdb> bt
>    gdb> q
>    script> exit
>    linux>
>
> The output captured by script will be in the file typescript.
>