Menu editor crashes when I try to open /usr/lib

[TerryJ]

Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 10:35 +1100, TerryJ wrote:
>   
>> There was no appearance of the editor in each case.  I conclude that gdb 
>> cannot run the xfce menu editor. =-O
>>     
>
> Oh yes it can :p
>
> use gdb xfce4-menueditor as command
>
> (gdb) run
>
> wait for a crash (or not :)), if it crashes
> (gdb) bt
>
> HTH

This sort of thing is all in a day's work for you, I suppose.  My 
interpretation of your message and the results follow:

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[terry at localhost xfl]$ gdb xfce4-menueditor
GNU gdb 6.3
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i686/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/xfce4-menueditor

[2]+  Stopped                 gdb xfce4-menueditor
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I'm guessing the problem is "(no debugging symbols found)" and I have to 
employ Synaptic again or unearth some configuration file and do strange 
things with a text editor.  Mutter, mutter.  He said it was easy, 
mutter, mutter.

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Regards, TerryJ

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