22January2008
When firefox crashes and burns…
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
One of the main fedora bug reporters (these people are like gold - they actually report problems and document them pretty well) recently CC’d me in on a firefox bug. Running it through gdb I got the following ridiculously unhelpful bunch of errors:
warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/3b/fcf3e37731d5058d14badc687008e09c95cb1b.debug
warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/de/0ca77c03cd1166b5a2d34920ec10b1a6fb7a0f.debug
warning: Missing the separate debug info file: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/ed/528e880f58d0466b0984f63be465b67e4dddaa.debug
Ahhh, _those_ debug info files. Long and the short of it, here’s the resolution (on Fedora or EL >= 5):
# yum install yum-utils
# debuginfo-install firefox (or $WHATEVER_APP_YOU_ARE_DEBUGGING)
… this may take a while @ circa 200MB d/l
$ gdb firefox (or, due to the way it runs in Fedora, /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.10/firefox-bin)
and you’re away…
