Beta testing Jaunty: how should I report this crash?

[Dotan Cohen]

> I do not know if it's the same on Jaunty, but in Hardy the crash reports
> appear in /var/crash/, and if there are any there, the crash report
> mechanism will usually kick in, and ask if you would like to report the
> problem at some point in time later, usually after the next reboot, but
> it doesn't always wait for that.
>
> The crash reports also appear to be named for the program which crashed.
> [in my case usually Nautilus for some unknown reason] The crash report
> program also appears to generate Procmap.txt, Dependencies.txt, and
> ProcStatus.txt, which are attached to the report set it builds up for
> you, before finally navigating to launchpad to report the bug.
>
> Not too sure if this is a very big help or not. At least it's something
> to go on. I haven't gotten around to studying about crash reports yet.
>

Thanks, Ray. It is KDE's Plasma crashing, so I get no error when it
happens. When I'm back in that system I will try to dig up a crash
report. Thanks.

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