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How to Report a Bug
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Some simple advice on making your bug report more useful (and thus more
likely to get answered and fixed):
1) Post as much information as possible.
This means we need more information than,
"MS Word crashes whenever I run it. Do you know why?" Include at
least the following information:
- Version of Wine you're using (run 'wine -v')
- Operating system you're using, what distribution (if any), and what
version.
- Compiler and version (run 'gcc -v')
- Program you're trying to run, its version number, and a URL for
where the program can be obtained (if available).
- Command line you used to start wine
- Any other information you think may be relevant or helpful.
2) Re-run the program with the -debugmsg +relay option
(i.e., 'wine -debugmsg +relay sol.exe').
If Wine crashes while running your program, it is important that we
have this information to have a chance at figuring out what is causing
the crash. This can put out quite a lot (several MB) of information,
though, so it's best to output it to a file. When the Wine-dbg> prompt
appears, type 'quit'.
To accomplish this, use the following commands:
wine -debugmsg +relay [other_options] program_name | tee filename.out
head -100 filename.out > report_file
'report_file' will now contain the last hundred lines of the debugging
output, including the register dump and backtrace, which are the most
important pieces of information. Please do not delete this part, even
if you don't understand what it means.
3) Post your report to the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
In your post, include all of the information from part 1), and insert
the text from the output file in part 2). If you do this, your chances
of receiving some sort of helpful response should be very good.
4) Questions and comments
If after reading this document there is something you couldn't figure
out, or think could be explained better, or that should have been
included, please post to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine to let us know
how this document can be improved.