Does anybody know a tutorial for debugging a crash in your desktop environment on Linux? I am mostly interested as an exercise in actually using the “source” part of open source. Like I imagine it requires:
1) identifying the exact DE version being run
2) fetching the source of that DE version from somewhere and building it in debug configuration
3) running that DE with a debugger attached then triggering the crash
The DE aspect makes it weird, like I would have to run it in a VM maybe so the crash doesn’t take down whatever program I’m using to run the debugger too.
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1) identifying the exact DE version being run
2) fetching the source of that DE version from somewhere and building it in debug configuration
3) running that DE with a debugger attached then triggering the crash
The DE aspect makes it weird, like I would have to run it in a VM maybe so the crash doesn’t take down whatever program I’m using to run the debugger too.
#AskFedi #FOSS #Linux