debug tips?

[ke.han]

I spent about two hours last night debugging a call into mnesia.  I 
finally found my error but it took a very long time to step..step..step 
through many lines before I found exactly what triggered the mnesia:abort().
The call into mnesia was:
     mnesia:create_table/2
The problem of course is the return result was simply:
{aborted,{bad_type,iserve_callback,disc_copies,'jon1@REDACTED'}}

No stack trace...just a return from the shell process.
By putting a breakpoint in mnesia_schema and stepping through for a very 
long time, I was finally able to catch the code which called 
mnesia:abort(). (There are many places in mnesia_schema where the 
mnesia:abort() is called).

I feel like there must have been a better way to close in on the error 
than what I did.  For example, is there a way to get a report when 
another process "throws" an error.  What if I have no idea, as in this 
case, how the error was generated..the "error" tuple was simply passed 
back to the Client process.  Any suggestions?

thanks, ke han