Debugging
This page is part of the debugging series — pages with debugging details for a variety of Ubuntu packages. |
The X Windows System is a critical component in the Ubuntu operating system. X is not without its bugs, but fortunately debugging X issues is not rocket science.
The vast majority of Ubuntu X issues fall into one of several distinct categories, and based on the way they manifest, there are several different tactics that can be employed in a nearly paint-by-numbers fashion to isolate them.
Even non-developers can help! The goal of this handbook is to give folks a toolset for rendering these bugs easily solvable.
Contents:
I. X/Reporting - How to properly report bugs in X
II. X/Backtracing - Getting gdb backtraces of X
III. X/Triaging - Steps for processing newly reported bugs to make them ready for troubleshooting
IV. X/Troubleshooting - Tips for analyzing and troubleshooting bugs