Should collect xsession errors when the issue happens, not when the user reports it

Bug #870003 reported by Sebastien Bacher
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apport (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
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Bug Description

The issue has been discussed a bit in bug #869974, the XsessionErrors attachment is built when the user reports the bug. That's wrong and can easily be misleading since it's easy to get warning corresponding to another session that the one where the bug happened (you miss the ones you need and get other ones which don't make sense)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

For this Apport should introduce a concept of hooks which run at crash time instead of at report time. These need to be:

 - very cheap and quick
 - can't have any interactivity
 - need to be very small and safe as they run as root

an additional idea is to mark them if they should be run as root or as the same user as the process that crashed.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) → nobody
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for apport (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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