The Applet crashes when clicking on Start Control

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I've tried:

gdb gnome-voice-control-dbgsym 2>&1 | tee gdb-voice_control_applet.txt
gdb voice_control_applet-dbgsym 2>&1 | tee gdb-voice_control_applet.txt

gdb gnome-voice-control 2>&1 | tee gdb-voice_control_applet.txt
 gdb voice_control_applet 2>&1 | tee gdb-voice_control_applet.txt

And all i get is

gnome-voice-control-dbgsym: No such file or directory.
(Or the appropirate variant)
I must be missing smg huger here. Any pointers ?

should be something like: gdb /usr/lib/gnome-voice-control/voice-control-applet ; for applets you need to specify the whole path.

I get :
GNU gdb 6.6-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/gnome-voice-control/voice_control_applet
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1229473104 (LWP 11030)]
Program exited normally.
(gdb)
(gdb)

But the applet doesn't show up in gnome-panel, so I couldn't make it crash.

after you run gdb and executed run on it, you have to add yourself the applet in to the panel.

Ok. I've got something :-)

GNU gdb 6.6-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal Stop Print Pass to program Description
SIG33 No No Yes Real-time event 33
(gdb) setpagination 0[1@
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/gnome-voice-control/voice_control_applet
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1228612944 (LWP 15915)]
fopen: No such file or directory
phone.c(108): fopen(/usr/share/sphinx2/model/hmm/6k/phone,r) failed
[New Thread -1246045296 (LWP 15928)]
[New Thread -1254438000 (LWP 15929)]
[New Thread -1262830704 (LWP 15930)]
[New Thread -1271223408 (LWP 15931)]
[New Thread -1279616112 (LWP 15932)]

Program exited with code 0377.
(gdb)

I forgot this tiny bit:

(gdb) backtrace fiull
No stack.
(gdb) info registers
The program has no registers now.
(gdb) thread apply all backtrace
(gdb) quit

Hello Pierre,

Thank you for your report. I'll forward the report upstream, to check if they know how to fix this.

The package depends on sphinx2-hmm-6k, which wasn't included in "Depends". This patch should fix that.

I'm sorry I didn't get the chance to fix this earlier.

gnome-voice-control (0.2-0ubuntu3) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Fixed broken dependency (Fixes LP: #134512)

 -- Sasa Bodiroza <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:55:10 +0200