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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de>
Subject: Re: Thunderbird 24.5.0 - Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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"Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> writes:

> Am Fri, 2 May 2014 16:45:33 +1000
> schrieb Robert Backhaus <robbak@robbak.com>:
>
>> A backtrace would be useful. Re-make the port with make -DWITH_DEBUG
>> clean build . Then cd into the work directory and run the program
>> from there. You can run it directly, and then pull the backtrace from
>> the dumpfile (gdb ./thunderbird thunderbird.core), or or run it
>> inside of gdb (gdb ./thunderbird, then type run). Get the backtrace
>> by typing 'bt full' into gdb once the program crashes.
>> 
>
> Thank you very much for advising this accociated with a detailed
> description on how to proceed. I will do this today in the evening. 
>
> The current thunderbird.core files are about 140 MiB in size. I am
> clueless on how to present such a huge file to the list. Do you have any
> advice on this?

Don't. Only post the backtrace.