Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-session

This looks like a dup of #95832 wherein you ask for a more meaningful
stack trace with reference to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash.  My stack trace isn't any
more meaningful but the problem with the aforementioned URL is that
while it covers how to add the dbgsym repository it doesn't tell you
how, given:

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnome-session-properties 
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1226667824 (LWP 27740)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1226667824 (LWP 27740)]
0xb7810df8 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0xb7810df8 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1  0x080500a9 in startup_list_enable ()
#2  0x0804f738 in ?? ()
#3  0x08059f38 in ?? ()
#4  0x080819d0 in ?? ()
#5  0xbfbe4d0c in ?? ()
#6  0xa21d0815 in ?? ()
#7  0x080fae98 in ?? ()
#8  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) 

how one knows *which* -dbgsym pacakges to install to given gdb the
required symbols.

I know apport has some ability to do this.  It would be useful to add
the apport way of adding the required packages and retracing to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash.

The one problem with apport-retrace though is that it loads -dbgsym
packages for all dependent packages which is usually overkill.
Typically one only needs the -dbgsym packages for whatever libs are at
the top of the stack trace.  But given a backtrace like the above, how
does one know which those are?

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Jun 18 17:04:04 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-session-properties
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon via82cxxx
Package: gnome-session 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-session-properties
ProcCwd: /usr/src/libwnck-2.19.3.1/libwnck
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 
PATH=/home/brian/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin/:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/StarOffice-3.1/linux-x86/bin
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-session
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 startup_list_enable ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: gnome-session-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux pc 2.6.22-6-generic #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 19:24:12 GMT 2007 i686 
GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio audio cdrom cdrom dialout dialout dip dip floppy 
floppy lpadmin mythtv plugdev plugdev scanner scanner video video

** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed


** Tags: apport-crash

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gnome-session-properties crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
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