The bug-buddy program is a tool which will guide you through making a bug report as painlessly as possible. You can alter things at any stage, and then either send, save, or abandon the resulting report. This document describes version 0.9 of bug-buddy.
bug-buddy can be started in a variety of ways:
Open the main GNOME menu and select Programs->Utilities->Bug Report Tool .
Run bug-buddy at the prompt in a terminal such as gnome-terminal or xterm.
If you are using the GNOME file manager, gmc, you can double-click your mouse on a core file to start it.
When a GNOME program experiences a bad crash, a crash dialogue box is displayed. If bug-buddy is present on the system, then one of the options in the dialogue box will be to make a bug-report. Selecting that will lead you to a further dialogue box giving you details of the program which crashed. Continuing at this stage will invoke bug-buddy .
bug-buddy is a very structured program. At any stage you can continue forward or head backwards to correct earlier details.
The aim of all this is to be able to collect all the information which a developer will need to reproduce the same problem and be able to fix it. Some of the information generated may look a bit off-putting, but don't delete it. It will be useful.
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