Crashes from Unity/Xorg continues with 12.10

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Thomas Novin wrote on 23/10/12 19:23:
> ...
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Timo Aaltonen
> ...
>>>>> On 23.10.2012 09:36, Thomas Novin wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However, after logging in, I didn't get any notification
>>>>>> that my system had crashed and question about submitting.
>>>>>> I then read here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker
>>>>>> and changed under Privacy > Diagnostics, Send error
>>>>>> reports to Canonical. This has no effect though, after
>>>>>> logging out and then in again I get no question about
>>>>>> submitting my crash.

This might have been because update-notifier failed to launch at
login. (For hysterical reasons, the code that checks for reportable
errors after login lives in update-notifier.)

>>>>>> Now I entered this setting again and the option was
>>>>>> unchecked! It seems that checking that option doesn't
>>>>>> stick.

That is a bug in the Privacy settings panel, which will be fixed soon.
<http://launchpad.net/bugs/993056>

>>>>>> Please advice, how should I handle/report my crashing
>>>>>> Xorg/Unity..
>>>>> 
>>>>> File a bug with 'apport-bug
>>>>> /var/crash/_usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash'.
> ...
> 
> IMHO, the automatic bug reporting should really be made easier
> without all those prompts and selections. In Android/Windows there
> is just one question, do you want to submit it, yes/no? That should
> be enough. So this + activated per default on all admin-accounts =
> more submitted bug reports = more stable Ubuntu-releases in the
> long run.
> 
> ...

In Ubuntu, error reporting is a single button click, just like on
Android and Windows.

This is a developer mailing list. When Timo suggested using apport-bug
to report a bug instead, he was suggesting an alternative for
developer use because the normal error reporting wasn't working for you.

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