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docs/debugging: merge the debug symbols/backtrace section

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We rarely have crashes, almost always we just need logs.
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Michael Stapelberg 2014-01-04 12:04:43 +01:00
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@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ DISPLAY=:0 i3-dump-log | bzip2 -c > /tmp/i3.log.bz2
This command does not depend on i3 (it also works while i3 displays
the crash dialog), but it requires a working X11 connection.
== Compiling with debug symbols
== On crashes: Obtaining a backtrace
When i3 crashes, it will display a dialog stating “i3 just crashed”, offering
you to save a backtrace to a text file.
To actually get useful backtraces, you should make sure that your version of i3
is compiled with debug symbols:
@ -97,8 +100,6 @@ which is stripped, please check whether your distribution provides debug
symbols (package +i3-wm-dbg+ on Debian for example) or if you can turn off
stripping. If nothing helps, please build i3 from source.
== Obtaining a backtrace
Once you have made sure that your i3 is compiled with debug symbols and the C
debugger +gdb+ is installed on your machine, you can let i3 generate a
backtrace in the crash dialog.