# bug-buddy

**Repository Path**: mirrors_chromium_gitlab_gnome/bug-buddy

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: bug-buddy
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: GPL-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-12

## Categories & Tags

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## README

This is bug-buddy, a graphical bug reporting tool.

What is it?
===========

bug-buddy can extract debugging information from a crashed application and
create either a stacktrace or a minidump file to send to the GNOME
bug tracker.

How does it work?
=================

bug-buddy uses gdb to collect the stacktrace from the crashed application.
It ships a GTK+ module, called gnomesegvhandler, that allows bug-buddy to
come up automatically every time a GTK+ application crashes.

Installation
============

It shouldn't be harder than the usual

~$ ./configure --prefix=/your/prefix
~$ make
~# make install

but there are some things that might be tricky: the gnomebreakpad module
should be installed in your GTK+ modules directory (default is
/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules), and GTK+ itself should be told to load that module
every time an application starts. 

There are two ways to do that:
- add "gnomesegvhandler" to the GTK_MODULES environment variable (this is how it
  works in GNOME 2.22 and older, as gnome-session takes care of setting the
  variable at startup); this is now deprecated.
- add a boolean "/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/gtk-modules/gnomesegvhandler" GConf
  key (requires GTK+ 2.14.2 and gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.0 to work properly).
  The key is installed by default by bug-buddy, and this method is the
  reccomended for GNOME 2.24 or newer.

So, if gnomebreakpad for some reason doesn't seem to work, check the GConf key
or the GTK_MODULES environment variable.

Report Bugs
===========

A bug reporting tool can have bugs as well, funny isn't it? :-P
Please report your bugs to the GNOME bug tracking system
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org), under the bug-buddy component.

Jacob Berkman  <jberkman@andrew.cmu.edu>
Fernando Herrera <fherrera@novell.com>
Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc@gnome.org>