Disabling whoopsie by default in the 12.04.1 release

[Martin Pitt]

Sebastien Bacher [2012-08-08 16:58 +0200]:
> Le 08/08/2012 16:31, Evan Dandrea a écrit :
> >>- password prompts locking your screen because an error happened to a
> >>service running with another user than yours
> >Is this happening automatically, or after you click on something?
> >
> It usually happens when a process from another user hits an issue,
> e.g start a guest session, closing it, you will like have one of
> those showing in your session

Apport's "get me the system crash reports" logic only looks at crashes
for UID < 500, i. e. for system users. I just realized that lightdm's
guest users are indeed system users, which would cause that. I think
we should fix that, I filed http://pad.lv/1038881 

>       trackers. (LP: #460932 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460932>)"
> 
> It seems that cut a number of those but doesn't cover all the cases,
> we need somebody to sit down and look at the cases where it's still
> happening and how we could cover them... (maybe just reject any
> issue with a timestamp before the session start?)

That would drop crashes which happen from cron, but these sound like a
corner case. For the purposes of a precise SRU, this would certainly
be a pinpointed, small, and safe change.

Martin

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