How is one to debug Konqueror crashes?

[Snowhog]

Investigating Konqueror Bugs

Konqueror crashes
The most useful information you can provide in that case is a backtrace, but you need to compile KDE yourself (preferrably with --enable-debug) so the backtrace is useful, or to use development packages. Official binary packages are "stripped", so they don't contain any useful information for a backtrace.

Now how intelligent is that! You must "compile KDE yourself (preferrably with --enable-debug) so the backtrace is useful,"! Konqeror, one of the CORE components of the KDE Desktop, and they don't have backtrace support natively available!? I've looked for a -dbg package for Konqueror, but one does not exist.

Why should a user have to compile backtrace support themselves!? Geez. :P

[Rog131]

Re: How is one to debug Konqueror crashes?

The KDE is telling > How to create useful crash reports:

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Here's a list of how to obtain debug packages for some distributions:

Kubuntu/Ubuntu - The Ubuntu family makes things quite easy. Every official KDE module has an additional package in the repository, suffixed with -dbg. Always install kdelibs5-dbg, because all KDE applications use kdelibs (kdelibs-dbg for KDE 3 applications). Then you should install a -dbg package for the application which crashed. For example if KOrganizer crashed you should install kdepim-dbg as well. If the program is not from an official KDE module and has no -dbg package, you can install the -dbgsym package from the repository listed on this Debugging Program Crashes page.
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> Report Kubuntu Bugs

Debugging Packages

For a good backtrace (3 stars) you will need, at the minimum, to have kdebase-runtime-dbg and kdelibs5-dbg installed.

The Konqueror is build from the kdebase so i would try to install the Package: kdebase-dbg:

This package contains debugging files used to investigate problems with binaries included in the KDE 4 base applications module.

[Snowhog]

Re: How is one to debug Konqueror crashes?

Thank you Rog131. I was just Googling on what KDE4 module Konqueror was in so I could install the appropriate -dbg packages. I had just installed the kdelibs5-dbg libqt4-dbg. I'm downloading/installing kdebase-dbg kdebase-runtime-dbg kdepimlibs-dbg now.

[Snowhog]

Re: How is one to debug Konqueror crashes?

Cool. With those -dpg package installed, creating a useful bug report was a snap.

[Guest]

Re: How is one to debug Konqueror crashes?

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