getting useful backtraces via -dbgsym packages

[Jani Monoses]

Hello,

in the past weeks the number of automatic reports of crashes in xfdesktop4 , xfce4-session and
xfce4-panel have increased considerably. To have a better chance at debugging them we need more
useful backtraces than the ones currently generated by apport from the stripped binaries.

So if any of you are among the reporters of those crashes you could install the corresponding
-dbgsym packages.

Add the line 
deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ddebs feisty main universe

to your apt sources and update, then you can install xfdesktop4-dbgsym and other similarly named packages.
When a crash occurs the backtrace will hopefully include a lot more information.

See this for more info
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-September/000195.html


Jani