[Bug 373143] [NEW] KDE crash dialog does not produce useful backtraces even when dbg packages are installed

[Alan Jenkins]

Public bug reported:

Environment: Kubuntu 9.04 i386 install
KDE version: 4.2.2-ubuntu4

Today I had a crash in krunner.  The KDE crash dialogue appeared, and
said that no useful backtrace could be generated.  But I *have*
installed the dbg packages.

E.g. I can run gdb against the running krunner, and resolve all symbols.
So the crash handler should be able to as well!

$ gdb -p `pgrep krunner`
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".                                                                                           
Attaching to process 4845                                                                                                              
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/krunner...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/krunner...done.                                    
done.
...
(gdb) where
#0  0xb800a430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb6795ae7 in *__GI___poll (fds=0x8920140, nfds=6, timeout=4995) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87
#2  0xb507574b in g_poll () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0xb5067f82 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0xb5068268 in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5  0xb6c05438 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents (this=0x85bbf58, flags={i = -1074628040}) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:323
#6  0xb714d3f5 in QGuiEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents (this=0x85bbf58, flags={i = -1074627992}) at kernel/qguieventdispatcher_glib.cpp:202
#7  0xb6bd806a in QEventLoop::processEvents (this=0xbff27ae0, flags={i = -1074627928}) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:149
#8  0xb6bd84aa in QEventLoop::exec (this=0xbff27ae0, flags={i = -1074627864}) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:200
#9  0xb6bda959 in QCoreApplication::exec () at kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp:880
#10 0xb70abda7 in QApplication::exec () at kernel/qapplication.cpp:3553
#11 0xb7fcd916 in kdemain (argc=1, argv=0xbff27c64) at /build/buildd/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/krunner/main.cpp:59
#12 0x08048712 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x6
) at /build/buildd/kdebase-workspace-4.2.2/obj-i486-linux-gnu/krunner/krunner_dummy.cpp:3
(gdb)


And here are the dbg packages I have installed:

$ dpkg-query -l "*dbg*" | grep ii
ii  amarok-dbg                                 2:2.0.2mysql5.1.30-0ubuntu3              debugging symbols for Amarok
ii  kdebase-dbg                                4:4.2.2-0ubuntu4                         debugging symbols for the KDE 4 base applica
ii  kdebase-runtime-dbg                        4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1                         debugging symbols for KDE 4 base runtime mod
ii  kdebase-workspace-dbg                      4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2                         debugging symbols for the KDE 4 base workspa
ii  kdelibs-dbg                                4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8                 debugging symbols for kdelibs
ii  kdelibs5-dbg                               4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5                         debugging symbols for the KDE 4 libraries mo
ii  lib64gcc1-dbg                              1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4                         GCC support library (debug symbols)
ii  lib64stdc++6-4.2-dbg                       4.2.4-5ubuntu1                           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (debugging f
ii  libc6-dbg                                  2.9-4ubuntu6                             GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols
ii  libqt4-dbg                                 4.5.0-0ubuntu4                           Qt 4 library debugging symbols
ii  pkg-create-dbgsym                          0.26                                     automatically build debug symbol ddeb packag
ii  qt-x11-free-dbg                            3:3.3.8-b-5ubuntu1                       debugging symbols for qt-x11-free binaries

** Affects: kdelibs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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KDE crash dialog does not produce useful backtraces even when dbg packages are installed
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