Collecting debugging information

This page may look rather unnerving. You will see it if you have selected "Collect information from a crashed application" or "Collect information from a core file" in the previous page.

When the application crashed, a copy of all the details of what the program was doing was frozen. This was either dumped to the core file or held in place. What bug-buddy is doing is to go through all that information and find out what steps the program took to get to the stage where it crashed. Programmers can follow the rather cryptic output and work out where something started to go wrong. This output will be automatically attached to your bug report. Don't edit it down unless you really know what you are doing.

Sometimes bug-buddy will not be able to generate the information and tell you that it cannot recognise the core file. If so, simply continue to the next stage. Do not send the core file itself as an alternative. It is only the output that bug-buddy wants.