Bug#313219: gedit: Crashes when attempting to load a file

[Justin Pryzby]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:04:20PM +0100, Barrie Millar wrote:
> The debugging information for this error is shown at the bottom of this
> message. Unfortunately it seems most of the symbols have been stripped.
All binaries in Debian are stripped, usually with debhelper's
dh_strip; (which just calls /usr/bin/strip with appropriate
arguments).

If you compile the binary yourself, (apt-get -b source gedit) you will
get the debugging symbols in the backtrace (depending on the build
system, you might have to first do something like
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip).

You might also compile the libraries nostrip, and then there will be
symbols there, too.

> If somebody can tell me how to output a package information view like
> those I see in other posts (sample shown below), I'll post one of my
> own. I've had a look around, but can't see how it's done anywhere.
You can just use the reportbug tool to report bugs.  Otherwise, you
can dpkg -l gedit, if that is the only packages about which you want
information.

Justin