Include bus errors and aborts, as well as segmentation violations, as

examples of errors that generate core dumps, and suggest that a stack
trace from the debugger could be useful for *all* failures that produce
core dumps.

Note that the core dump file may be named "ethereal.core", and note that
"tethereal" rather than "ethereal" should be used in file names if it's
Tethereal that blew up.

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$Id: README,v 1.41 2000/08/22 06:50:04 gram Exp $
$Id: README,v 1.42 2000/08/24 23:33:09 guy Exp $
General Information
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@ -214,11 +214,12 @@ a trace file along with your bug description. Please don't send a trace file
greater than 1 MB when compressed. If the trace file contains sensitive
information (e.g., passwords), then please do not send it.
If Ethereal died on you with a 'segmentation violation', you can help the
developers a lot if you have a debugger installed. A stack trace can be
obtained by using your debugger ('gdb' in this example), the ethereal binary,
and the resulting core file. Here's an example of how to use the gdb
command 'backtrace' to do so.
If Ethereal died on you with a 'segmentation violation', 'bus error',
'abort', or other error that produces a UNIX core dump file, you can
help the developers a lot if you have a debugger installed. A stack
trace can be obtained by using your debugger ('gdb' in this example),
the ethereal binary, and the resulting core file. Here's an example of
how to use the gdb command 'backtrace' to do so.
$ gdb ethereal core
(gdb) backtrace
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(gdb) quit
$
The core dump file may be named "ethereal.core" rather than "core" on
some platforms (e.g., BSD systems). If you got a core dump with
Tethereal rather than Ethereal, use "tethereal" as the first argument to
the debugger; the core dump may be named "tethereal.core".
Disclaimer
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