[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #6955: KDL at desktop after installation
- From: "anevilyak" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:36:58 -0000
#6955: KDL at desktop after installation
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Reporter: drcouzelis | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords: KDL
Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: x86 | Blocking: 6954
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Comment (by anevilyak):
The line/function at which something crashes is almost never the line that
actually caused the issue. Typically it's something else that went wrong
previously which put the system in an incorrect state or corrupted a data
structure, which ultimately winds up crashing in some place that winds up
making use of said structure, but the latter isn't the actual culprit,
only a victim. As such, in all but the most trivial cases, the backtrace
only really gives you a starting point for figuring out what other pieces
of code could potentially have affected the things the offending function
is dealing with. In this case even that is unfortunately less than obvious
since it's a crash in the VFS, which is used by just about everything in
some manner or other. Therefore, narrowing things down more specifically
to either a revision or option that makes the problem go away is about the
only real route to go in order to start tracking down the actual
underlying cause.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6955#comment:15>
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