Bug#689862: gnome-mplayer: often segfaults inside iceweasel with MPEG, WMV, and AVI videos

Sun Oct 7 13:41:15 UTC 2012

On 2012-10-07 15:04:26, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Please help me: how can I obtain a backtrace?

The best way to obtain a core dump from iceweasel plugins I came across
so far is to do the following:

Run:
 $ ulimit -c unlimited
 $ iceweasel
and reproduce the crash. You should end up with a core dump in $(pwd).
Run
 $ gdb /usr/bin/gnome-mplayer core
to inspect it and get a back trace.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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