Best practice for reporting bugs

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 25 15:53:08 GMT 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:08:44PM +0100, Martin Olsson wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > For me, it pops up right away with a progress bar.  It does take a long time
> > before I can file the bug, because it's reading the dpkg database, which
> > takes forever, in order to find out which package the program belongs to.
> > You can skip that if you invoke ubuntu-bug with a package name.
> 
> For me apport will take 100% CPU for about 20-30 seconds before _any_ UI shows
> up. It would be useful to be able to cancel _before_ it hogs all those resources.

This part is apport actually reading, compressing and saving the core dump.

This is approximately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61730

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 - mdz



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