Comment 6 for bug 1861741

The command in your response, just produced the message "No coredump
found.", even though my distro does use systemd. I figured out how to
generate the coredump file and then using gdb created a backtrace fle,
Thank you for your patience with me!

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 5:15 PM Kovid Goyal <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Next try producing a backtrace
>
> echo bt | coredumpctl gdb
>
> assuminf your distro uses systemd otherwise you will need to find out
> how to create backtraces for it.
>
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> Title:
> Linux Calibre 4.9.1 - Crash to desktop
>
> Status in calibre:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Version: 4.9.1
> OS: Linux
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1) Start calibre
> 2) Click Preferences
> 3) Choose to change behaviour
> 4) Click Output options
> 5) calibre disappears
>
> Running from command prompt adds following messages after crash:
>
> free(): invalid pointer
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> I renamed "Calibre Library" and '.config/calibre" and was able to
> reproduce the same error using the same above steps with the blank
> configuration and library.
>
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