csant/log

I should have maybe posted this already some time back - but later is better than never. Axel ported the crashlogger inspector to x86 Linux! So here comes a little HowTo run it: First you'll need to download inspectr, save it somewhere and

$ chmod 755 inspectr

Next step is to attach it to the Opera you want to monitor for a crash:

$ ./inspectr <opera_binary_PID>

The <opera_binary_PID> is the ProcessID of the binary you want to monitor - the binary, not the wrapper script (this is easily done wrong). How to detect the PID of the Opera binary?

$ ps aux | grep opera

This will give you a list of all processes called opera that you might need: if you want to monitor the main Opera installation that you started with the command

$ opera& 

you'll need to be looking for something like

/usr/lib/opera/<opera_version>/opera

if, on the other hand, you want to monitor a test version you started from a tarball with

$ ./opera

look out for

./bin/opera

Done! As soon as Opera crashes, inspectr will create a crashlog in its directory. For the procedure on how to report crashers, follow the instructions - note that for compression bzip2 is reccomended (it should be installed on virtually any Linux distro). Update: please always also report which package you are using (static .1, shared .5 or .6).

Example

(just a tiny bit simplified output, for readability):

$ ./opera&
$ ps aux | grep opera
csant 14203 /bin/sh ./opera
csant 14212 ./bin/opera
$ ./inspectr 14212
Using PID 14212

Update

There is now also an official KB article on the topic.