Introducing automatic crash reporting in Edgy

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Matt,

Matt Zimmerman [2006-08-14 10:03 -0700]:
> Surely the debug symbols need to match the exact program and libraries used
> on the system where crash occurred, no?  

Right. However, rebuilding the same version seems to work sometimes,
at least it worked once when I tried it.

> Does apport verify this?

gdb does; the gnu debuglink in ELF files stores a CRC checksum which
has to match for gdb to accept the debug symbols.

> Even a rebuild could easily change offsets in the program.  This is
> why we need to save the information during the build.

Right, that's why I want to keep the ddebs with some cowboy method
until Launchpad properly supports them.

> >  * If you configured your browser to open new pages in new tabs
> >    instead of new windows, and you already have an open browser window
> >    on a different virtual workspace, then you will not see anything
> >    happen when the bug reporting dialog opens and asks to file a bug.
> >    I do not see an easy solution for this which does not override the
> >    Gnome configuration. Suggestions welcome.
> 
> Those of us who choose this (optional, non-default) configuration are
> accustomed to this kind of behaviour, and accept it as a tradeoff for
> keeping our browser organized.

I discussed this with Matthew, and we agreed that we just live with
this for Edgy. This problem will disappear anyway when we get the bug
reporting tool.  
 
> Probably the best we could do would be to have Firefox use the same GNOME
> facility used to notify the user of activity in xchat-gnome, gaim, etc. so
> that the task bar flashes.

That would indeed be nice.

Thanks,

Martin
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