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brbornia

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Registered: 2009-10-26

Posts: 11

How to be sure if I found a bug or if I did something wrong?

Hi, I'm new with Arch and want to start reporting bugs, but I'm afraid of report something that actually is not a bug but something wrong I did.
What do you guys do to be sure?

Thanks.

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: How to be sure if I found a bug or if I did something wrong?

First thing would be to realise the exact error. Second would be to check your logs to see what you have installed/upgraded which might be causing this error. Third, google your error and see if matches turn up. Fourth, search in Arch bugtracker to see if a match exist. Else file a report.

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LeoSolaris

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From: South Carolina

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 354

Re: How to be sure if I found a bug or if I did something wrong?

Another alternative after googling is to ask about it specifically on the forums. Most of the time, someone else will have the issue as well, and if it is not up on the tracker, then you have an entire conversation you can link back to when you make the report.

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brbornia

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Registered: 2009-10-26

Posts: 11

Re: How to be sure if I found a bug or if I did something wrong?

ok, thanks for your replies.