hello.
i have an opensuse 10.3 box with ktorrent 2.4.4 installed from KDE:Backports. and this setup is suffering of sporadic and unpredictable crashes of ktorrent. it just dies leaving a core.
so what is the best way to deal with such situation? to fill in request on bugs.kde.org or ask an opensuse community if it is openSUSE package failure?
running `gdb `which ktorrent` core' didn't said a lot to me...

With running gdb I believe it is actually

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gdb /usr/bin/ktorrent
run ktorrent

Then when it crashes you type in bt and post the output.

Also this might be a problem with the package maker. Have you tried compiling 2.2.4 yourself?

PS I assume you meant 2.2.4 which is the latest not 2.4.4

run --nofork

Otherwise KT will fork an new process and just exit (leaving you with no information at all about the crash)

ok. this issue was cleared by rebooting my box (though i think that restaring of dbus and dbus-related stuff will suffice too).
i believe that it was caused by mismatch of running dbus (or its loaded libraries) with updated ktorrent.
and now i've moved to ubuntu and ktorrent still working like a charm (despite large memory consumption and pretty high CPU load).

nevertheless, what is the preferred way of debugging segfaults and other coredumps? i believe that it is `gdb binary core; where; bt'. am i mistaken?