How do YOU report your bugs during .iso testing???

[Nicholas Skaggs]

I've used the method Brian is describing to copy off a file and report 
from my main machine in the past. Note you can also report on the 
command line without a gui! It will prompt in the terminal and file away.

nicholas

On 06/25/2013 10:03 AM, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:50:01PM +0100, Adrian Goodyer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering what methods people use to report their bugs when .iso
>> testing?
>>
>> For example, I typically access a virtual console on the VM (or hw test
>> machine) by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2 and then due to the difficulty of
>> displaying a browser window in the command line environment, I then ssh in
>> from another machine with the -X parameter and run 'ubuntu-bug ubiquity'
>> (as a typical example) from there. Finally I then complete the bug report
>> in the browser on a different machine, ensuring I get the most accurate
>> information available to attach for the developers.
>>
>> Are there any other ways that anyone knows of or consistently uses
>> themselves??
> ubuntu-bug is a wrapper around apport-cli and apport-cli has an option
> for saving the report for later.  The documentation says:
>
> --save=PATH   In bug filing mode, save the collected information
>                into a file instead of reporting it. This file can
>                then be reported later on from a different machine.
>
> Saving the bug report to a file can be useful when the machine you are
> testing on does not have internet access.  After saving the file and
> moving it to a system with internet access you can use 'apport-cli
> my.crash' (where my.crash is the saved crash file) to send the report to
> Launchpad.
>
> --
> Brian Murray
> Ubuntu Bug Master
>
>

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