On 2 Aug 2008 Rob Kendrick wrote: > On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:43:18 +0100 > Jess Hampshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My take on the situation is that the log being discussed was sent in >> direct response to the request that Netsurf itself makes when it dies. > No. NetSurf requests that people file a bug report, and attach the > log. Just sending a log with no context what-so-ever does not > constitute a bug report. It does not help us fix bugs. It will not > make the browser more stable for you. It doesn't help anyone at all. I've had numerous occasions on which NetSurf has spontaneously crashed when I've tried to quit it or shut down the system or when I'm doing something else altogether. It's very difficult to give very much contextual information, but the log should give you some idea of what ultimately caused the crash (usually but not always a segmentation fault), what pages were last visited, what objects were last requested and what various registers were pointing to. I agree that the tracker is the place to report such problems despite it's irritating login problems. However apart from the management capabilities it provides, including the ability to add further information, it's not really that different from an email message with a subject (summary), body (description) and attachment (log). In fact email doesn't normally choke on attachments over 300 kBytes! -- _ |_|. _ Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ |\_||_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
