
How to start
Configure plugin
Before you can start debugging your favourite crash dump, you first have to configure the plugin
which you want to use. Plugins are used for communication with the underlying lcrash program.
To get the Plugins Dialog, click on Option -> Options. You will see the
following dialog:
Options
When clicking on the Change... button next to Lcrash plugin, you get an new dialog
for configuring the plugins. To configure a plugin, click on one available plugin and then click
on the Configure button.
The local plugin
The local plugin is normally used when you run lcrash and qlcrash on the same machine.
For the local plugin you have to configure the path of lcrash and the arguments passed to lcrash
when started. Normally the following settings are used:
- Path: /sbin/lcrash
- Arguments: System.map dumpfile Kerntypes
The remote (tcpip) plugin
The remote plugin should be used, if you run lcrash and qlcrash on different machines.
To connect to a remote host, it is necessary that on the remote host lcrashd runs.
For the remote plugin you have to configure the host, port, timeout, lcrash path and arguments.
Normally the following settings are used:
- Host: IP Address of host, where lcrashd runs
- Port: Port number of lcrashd (normally 8192)
- Timeout: time in ms qlcrash waits for response of lcrashd
- Path: /sbin/lcrash
- Arguments: System.map dumpfile Kerntypes
Activating plugin
Press on the Activate button in the plugin setup window in order to activate a plugin.
To restart lcrash with the new settings click File -> Restart lcrash
in the main menu.