Quantal had Firefox and terminal and pcmanfm up, in terminal did gedit new file name and got /var/crash. Automatic apport started however lost internet briefly, and when internet came back Apport had quit so I did ubuntu-bug gedit. Is that the way to process the /var/crash to launchpad?
In the middle of this mess there was a red banner saying gedit couldn't find <a long file name with folders> that might have been something I had looked at previously with pcmanfm. Wierd, like gedit didn't create a new file name but somehow searched around and picked something up from pcmanfm?
Tried it again, and repeated, had pcmanfm up and did gedit test where test is a new file name.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gedit 3.5.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.19-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 17 09:24:04 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120905.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
See also bug #1051976 where Apport was successful in detecting the crash and acrivating launchpad.