Problems with debug packages on ubuntu 9.10 karmic

[Jason Crain]

Quoting Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt at t-mittelstaedt.de>:
> I have problems producing bug reports containing backtraces with all
> debug symbols. Even though I do have the dbg packages installed, gdb 7
> doesn't pick them up automatically, neither for an installed app like
> rhythmbox nor for a custom build of gnome evolution.
> The non-stripped libraries get installed under /usr/lib/debug and I
> tried to use add-symbol-file, to load the symbols. And this procedure
> would only be partly successful, i.e. in the backtrace, some function
> calls of a library would show nicely while others would be just the
> usual '???'.
>
> See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606881 and
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=trace.html&trace_id=220468.


It looks like mostly libraries are left.  You can try installing the  
following debug packages.

libc6-dbg
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-dbg
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-dbg
libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg
libglib2.0-0-dbg
libpulse0-dbg
libpulse-browse0-dbg
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-dbg

And this is why it's easer to send bugs to launchpad.  They can use  
apport-retracer to get the debugging symbols themselves.