getting stack traces etc, i e bug report info

[johan.jonemo@hep.lu.se]

I just mentioned a problem on the list and one of the recommendations I
got was to run gdb (indirectly because it referred me to a page with those
instructions) to get the stack trace.

How is this done? My gdb insists that my files are not executable even
though I execute them just fine (apart from that they crash eventually).

To elaborate a bit: the stripped executable could be run in gdb (with very
little information available of course), the non-stripped version can't.

I realise that this could be construed as being of topic but this is
probably something that more ldap software users have been baffled by.

Johan Jönemo

Technical info:

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