Ok, that worked. Here's the output from GDB:

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    Reading symbols from geany...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
    (gdb) run -i project.geany
    Starting program: /usr/bin/geany -i project.geany
    [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
    Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
    [New Thread 0x7fffed1a9700 (LWP 6825)]
    [New Thread 0x7fffec9a8700 (LWP 6826)]
    [New Thread 0x7fffe7fff700 (LWP 6827)]
    [New Thread 0x7fffe77fe700 (LWP 6828)]
    [Thread 0x7fffe7fff700 (LWP 6827) exited]

    Thread 1 "geany" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
    0x00007fffe545c801 in PyModule_AddObject () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0


On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de> wrote:
On 10.05.2017 20:56, Chris Spencer wrote:
> How do I get a backtrace? Googling it, I found this page
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace), suggesting I should be able to run:
>
>     gdb geany -i project.geany 2>&1 | tee ~/gdb-geany.txt
>
> but this gives me the error:
>
>     Interpreter `project.geany' unrecognized

Run

gdb geany

and than inside gdb:
run -i project.geany

once geany crashed you can show the backtrace via bt

> However, my version of Geany is:
>
>     geany 1.27 (built on 2016-04-17 with GTK 2.24.30, GLib 2.48.0)
>
> from the standard package in the Ubuntu 16.04 repo.

It's a quiet old version.


Cheers,
Frank



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