Version: 0.12.3 (using KDE 3.5.5, Debian Package 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 (4.0)) Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.18-3-686 With the newest update Kopete crashes every time I try to open the configuration dialog (German "Einstellungen->Einrichten"). When this happens, the whole X11 session restarts and KDM appears again. However the other dialogs, like configuring the plugins, work flawlessly.
Please provide a backtrace of the crash (install kdelibs-dbg and kdenetwerk-dbg first).
I would like to, but unfortunatly I got no experience with debugging applications at all, so please give me some advise. I have installed gdb, kdelibs-dbg und kdenetwork-dbg on my system. How do I backtrace kopete? When I attach to it with kdbg, I have no chance to examine the stack, because X11 crashes immidiatly. Please help a n00b to debug a program :-)
You can run gdb from the command line and attach to the process ID of kopete. $ gdb /kde/prefix/bin/kopete --attach `pidof kopete` gdb> run *reproduce crash* gdb> bt Which stands for backtrace.
Thanks for the small tutorial. However this problem doesn't occur anymore, altough I didn't change anything on Kopete. Maybe it was a side effect of some other library.