RFC: Automatic trouble reporting

[Mike Hearn]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:45:43 -0800, Johan Walles wrote:
> As you say, bug-buddy covers only Gnome.  If anything non-Gnome crashes 
> it won't help.  For example if the X server crashes, bug-buddy won't be 
> of much help, but that's something you'd probably want to know about.  
> And if any non-supported Gnome software crashes, what happens with the 
> bug report?

That's a completely solvable problem, which is somewhere near the bottom
of my perpetually changing to do list. Look at the catch-segv program that
ships with glibc: using an LD_PRELOAD library to replace the default fatal
signal handling is easy and relatively safe. It could be done by
gnome-panel and the current signal handling code in libgnome deprecated.

thanks -mike