> Your Emacs was not built with debugging symbols. The "Preliminaries" > section of etc/DEBUG explains how to build with debugging symbols. > Because you didn't start it. The GDB "run" command starts the > executable. This is again described in etc/DEBUG. It seems that I compiled now the error checking enabled emacs. BTW I just found out that even for the vanilla compiled emacs there is bug trace file in /tmp, however its around 300 Mega, so basically worse less so I continue to give the error enabled emacs a try. But I still don't get it to work. I do cd src/emacs/src (dir where the new emacs is compiled) gdb run /home/oub/src/emacs/src/emacs un /home/oub/src/emacs/src/emacs Starting program: /home/oub/src/emacs/src/emacs No executable file specified.Use the "file" or "exec-file" command. exec-file /home/oub/src/emacs/src/emacs And nothing happens. What do I miss?