Bug#506506: Another very similar phenomenon

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> I'm following the steps. It is taking a while. I'm not surprised or 
> worried by the time. But while its working, I'm thinking I see that
> I am to run the program under gdb by invoking gdb from a command line.
> I run programs from a command line all the time, but from a command
> line in a gnome-terminal window under gnome and X. So what do I really
> do to run gnome-terminal under the control of gdb? I've never done 
> this before. I think I need some very explicit instructions. When I
> get to the place were the web site says type: 
> $ gdb hello
> 
> What do I actually do instead? I'm sure its 'obvious', but it's only 
> obvious after one has been told.

$ gdb gnome-terminal
(gdb) run

You will get a new terminal where you can trigger the crash and then get a
backtrace.

Cheers,
Emilio

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