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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] curious zypper suggestion
From:       Anders Johansson <ajohansson () suse ! de>
Date:       2010-12-23 11:15:01
Message-ID: 201012231215.01172.ajohansson () suse ! de
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On Thursday 23 December 2010 12:08:08 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On 11.2, I am messing about with some apps that can easily die. Nothing
> new there :) In a recent interaction, when an app crashed, I got the
> following listed:
> 
> Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib/libXau.so.6
> Try: zypper install -C
> "debuginfo(build-id)=df6dcedfbde83400310437f8f22b91b8754d551d"
> 
> 
> This was listed for each library used in the application. I do not have
> any debug libraries installed. I am guessing this is suggesting that I
> can get these installed with the suggested command. My question is: what
> would this accomplish? Would it simply install the debug packages? Or
> would it install some other useful debugging info?

It would install the corresponding debuginfo package so you'll get sensible 
symbols in a backtrace or gdb session. Without them, you normally only get 
question marks, which rarely helps :)

Anders
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