On Fri 8.Jul'16 at 12:40:57 +0200, Adam Wolk wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 09:16:15AM +0000, C. L. Martinez wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Once a day, searchd daemon (installed from OpenBSD's packages repository) > > generate a core dump. How can I report this problem? To openbsd-ports > > mailing list?? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > Greetings, > > C. L. Martinez > > > > First of all obtain a backtrace from your core dump. You can do this with gdb > by > passing in the program binary and the core dump as arguments: > $ gdb prog prog.core > > use the 'bt' command to obtain a backtracce when it's done loading. > > You might need to rebuild the package with debug symbols in order to obtain a > useful trace. > > Gather as much info as you can: > - check dmesg for errors > - did it work before? when did it start to segfault? > - anything in the logs? > - what OpenBSD version are you running? (-current?) > > Take a look at the backtrace and the info you obtained. Check the upstream > source code, maybe you can fix the error yourself now? If not. Take the > information you gathered and post to ports@ CC'ing the port maintainer. You > should also report the problem upstream to package developers if the problem > is > not OpenBSD specific (and it's frequently worth to report even if it is > specific). > > Regards, > Adam > Many thanks Adam ... I will try to do all the steps and report to ports@ afterwards.
-- Greetings, C. L. Martinez
