Closed
Bug 634848
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
WinDbg instructions point to wrong location for debug log in Windows 7
Categories
(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
People
(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)
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Details
(Whiteboard: u=mozdev p=1 c=Platform)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.98 Safari/534.13 Build Identifier: If you follow the instructions at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/how_to_get_a_stacktrace_with_windbg exactly, you are led to believe that you will find the log file in C:\ . In Windows 7, running as a normal non-UAC account, this is not what happens. Windows places the log file in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore . I assume this is part of some kind of UAC-related compatibility mechanism on Windows' part. As this is greatly confusing (I spent 3 days thinking I had lost a debug log before realizing that I was looking in the wrong place!), it would be helpful if the instructions reflected the proper location of the debug log in Windows 7 systems. Alternately, if we are supposed to manually run WinDbg as administrator (which might or might not cause the log file to be placed in C:\), then the instructions should indicate that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter '.logopen /t c:\firefox-debug.log' in WinDbg prompt as instructed. 2. Look for the log file in C:\. Actual Results: You do not find the log file. Expected Results: The instructions should have advised you to look in C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore .
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Updated•12 years ago
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Component: Website → Landing pages
Updated•11 years ago
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Component: Documentation → General
Product: Mozilla Developer Network → Developer Documentation
Updated•11 years ago
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Whiteboard: u=mozdev p=0
Updated•11 years ago
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Whiteboard: u=mozdev p=0 → u=mozdev p=0 c=Platform
Updated•11 years ago
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Whiteboard: u=mozdev p=0 c=Platform → u=mozdev p=1 c=Platform
Comment 3•8 years ago
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In 2013 I changed it to .logopen /t c:\temp\firefox-debug.log Does that work for you? Alternatively, %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ might be even better
Flags: needinfo?(mozilla)
Comment 4•7 years ago
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No answer unfortunately. Closing this one.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(mozilla)
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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