Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of ReportBugs

Timestamp:

Mar 29, 2008, 7:32:28 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

Didactylos

Comment:

Mention ps. Change Task Manager shortcut.

ReportBugs

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 In general we're only interested in bug reports for the current public release, or for the latest testing release.
 == Crashes ==
-If the Manager suddenly goes blank and says 'not connected', it's almost certainly because the core client has crashed. You can verify this by running the Windows Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) and checking that there's no process named 'boinc.exe'.
+If the Manager suddenly goes blank and says 'not connected', it's almost certainly because the core client has crashed. You can verify this by
+ '''Windows'''::
+ Run the Windows Task Manager (ctrl-shift-esc) and check that there's no process named 'boinc.exe'.
+ '''Linux / Unix'''::
+ Run {{{ps}}} and check that there's no process named 'boinc'.
 
 Each crash appends an entry to the crash-report file (stderrdae.txt for the core client). Here's [/stderrdae.txt an example of such an entry]. It has a long list of DLLs in use at the time of the crash, followed by several 'stack traces' showing where the various threads were executing.