[Bug 1169736] Re: Why is apport opening so many pop-ups, notifying users of crashes?

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Why is apport opening so many pop-ups, notifying users of crashes?

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Since I think 12.10, I started getting at least 3-4 of these pop-ups
  daily from various programs (nautilus, rhythmbox, spotify, apport
  itself...) notifying me that something has crashed and asking me if I
  want to report the bug. I find any such GUI-level interaction very
  aggressive and should only happen in extreme cases, not on a daily
  basis.

  What is the reasoning behind this behavior and is it really necessary?
  Couldn't we have a global system-level question once the first crash
  appears or when the user first logs in, asking if the user wants to
  help developers by reporting bugs in the background ("sending random
  statistics" as other OS-es call this) and then just silently report
  them in the future? (and I don't mean per-application-per-version
  silencing as is currently available - this still leaves too much
  manual work).

  The current behavior lead me to a situation where I completely turned
  off bug reporting (same as the gentleman who wrote this blog post did
  [1] and probably many others as well) as there was no better option to
  silence it.

  [1]: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/ubuntu-12-04-has-experienced-
  an-internal-error-message/

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: apport 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
  Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr 16 23:23:52 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-20 (86 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
   # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
   # you can temporarily override this with
   # sudo service apport start force_start=1
   enabled=0
  mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2013-04-16T23:13:39.477907

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