[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.4b3 crashing consistantly - How do I provide helpful info?

[John Lange]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:33 -0500, Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> Two things you need to make sure you enable when you compile asterisk:
> 
> DEBUG_THREADS
> DONT_OPTIMIZE
> 
> These can be toggled under the "Compiler Flags" options when you do a 
> "make menuselect". Make sure that you have them turned on (I.E. an 
> Asterisk next to them).
> 
> Then, follow the guidelines for obtaining a backtrace with GDB. These can 
> be found in the file "asterisk/doc/backtrace.txt".
> 
> I would suggest that you issue the following, to make your life easy;
> 
> script backtrace.txt <- This will start a typescript session, which 
> 			captures the Input / Output from the session into 
> 			a file called "backtrace.txt"
> 
> Once you get into gdb, then issue:
> "set pagination off" to turn of paging.
> 
> Then, get your backtrace, exit out of GDB and come find someone on 
> #asterisk-dev on irc.freenode.org to take a look at your backtrace.
> 

Thank you. I hope you don't mind but I have updated the wiki with those
tips for others.

John