Create a debug report

In this article, let's review how to create a Debug report.

Sometimes applications are crashing under Haiku with the below message :

As explained before, the default choice will stop the application. What about creating a debug report ? To do so, select the "Save report" choice and confirm :

It will create a report file on the desktop :

If you look at the details of this file, it contains information such as your hardware, the exact version of Haiku and all available information on the state of the system:

If the application where the bug is reported is embedded with Haiku, you can attach the bug report to the ticket created on the Haiku development tracker website.

If you would like more information on how to create this kind of ticket, you can read the article named Give feedback on Haiku.

If the application is not embedded with Haiku, then the bug must probably be reported to HaikuPorts.

Please note you can change the default behavior when an application is crashing. In case you always want to generate a debug report :

• Create the folder "/boot/home/config/settings/system/debug_server"
• Put in that folder an empty file named "settings"

Then in that file, put the below line :

default_action report

This will indicate to the Debugger to override the default behavior (which is "user", ie asking to the user his choice) by the report behavior ("report") which will create a debug report on the desktop.