I created bug report 769 (http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=769). Basically, on one particular computer I am able to get Ark to crash consistently.
Yesterday I started tinkering with building my packages with separate debug packages rather than building the debugging symbols into one package. I figure outside of the devs and packagers most end-users are not interested in that support. :(
Today on that same computer I installed new packages for kdelibs, kdebase, and kdeutils: six packages instead of three.
Now I can't get Ark to crash.
- I don't pretend to understand the nuances of debugging
symbols, but by splitting the debug symbols into a separate package, could I have resolved the bug? Does that make sense?
Anybody?
Calvin, grab some coffee to get some caffeine. :) I solved that particular problem --- I submitted a patch to build crashtest in kdebase/drkonqi. :). The crashtest executable works great, by the way.
I want to know whether having separate debugging packages could have solved the Ark bug. Makes no sense to me but perhaps you developer crackerjacks know better. :)
Darrell