Help talk:Contents

From VikingWiki

You say if Viking crashes, you would like feedback from the users - be advised that I'm not a computer geek, and the list of instructions you gave are totally "geekish" to me; a language I don't understand. Vis: If Viking crashes, it is very helpful to send a backtrace to the developers, to help them diagnose and repair the problem. To do this:

  1. extract viking source and compile as normal
  2. in src do gdb ./viking
  3. type "run" at gdb prompt to start running viking.
  4. do what it takes to make Viking crash (watch for message "Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault." from gdb output)
  5. type "bt" on gdb prompt to get the backtrace on screen.
  6. Copy/paste the output of "bt" and email to viking-devel.
  7. Type "quit" to exit gdb. 

Can you not install a crash-handler (such is used by KDE, which would make it much easier for people who are "using" your program (and are not programmers) to forward such information to you? Believe me, I'd love to help you with you project, but when you give me instructions in doing so which I cannot follow, understand or with which I can comply, it makes the exercise moot.