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Apport crash detection/reporting ================================ Apport intercepts Program crashes, collects debugging information about the crash and the operating system environment, and sends it to bug trackers in a standardized form. It also offers the user to report a bug about a package, with again collecting as much information about it as possible. It currently supports - Crashes from standard signals (SIGSEGV, SIGILL, etc.) through the kernel coredump handler (in piping mode) - Unhandled Python exceptions - GTK, KDE, and command line user interfaces - Packages can ship hooks for collecting specific data (such as /var/log/Xorg.0.log for X.org, or modified gconf settings for GNOME programs) - apt/dpkg and rpm backend (in production use in Ubuntu and OpenSUSE) - Reprocessing a core dump and debug symbols for post-mortem (and preferably server-side) generation of fully symbolic stack traces (apport-retrace) - Reporting bugs to Launchpad (more backends can be easily added) Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport for more details and further links. The files in doc/ document particular details such as package hooks, crash database configuration, or the internal data format. Temporarily enabling apport =========================== The automatic crash interception component of apport is disabled by default in stable releases for a number of reasons [1]. To enable it just for the current session, do sudo service apport start force_start=1 Then you can simply trigger the crash again, and Apport's dialog will show up with instructions to report a bug with traces. Apport will be automatically disabled on next start. If you are triaging bugs, this is the best way to get traces from bug reporters that didn't use Apport in the first place. To enable it permanently, do: sudo nano /etc/default/apport and change enabled from "0" to "1". [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How%20to%20enable%20apport Crash notification on servers ============================= You can add if [ -x /usr/bin/apport-cli ]; then if groups | grep -qw admin && /usr/share/apport/apport-checkreports -s; then cat <<-EOF You have new problem reports waiting in /var/crash. To take a look at them, run "sudo apport-cli". EOF elif /usr/share/apport/apport-checkreports; then cat <<-EOF You have new problem reports waiting in /var/crash. To take a look at them, run "apport-cli". EOF fi fi to your ~/.bashrc to get automatic notification of problem reports. Contributing ============ Please visit Apport's Launchpad homepage for links to the source code revision control, the bug tracker, translations, downloads, etc.: https://launchpad.net/apport The preferred mode of operation for Linux distribution packagers is to create their own branch from 'trunk' and add the distro specific packaging and patches to it. Please send patches which are applicable to trunk as merge requests or bug reports, so that (1) other distributions can benefit from them as well, and (2) you reduce the code delta to upstream.