Comment 5 for bug 1278780

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 08:21:44PM +0200, Torsten Sachse wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >The only part that should be running when not on wifi is the crash
> >collection. We certainly *should* be running that when not on wifi; you
> >don't get a second chance to run the kernel crash handler, and we want to
> >know about crashes that only happen when not on wifi (including, possibly,
> >crashes that happen /because/ you're not on wifi).

> While that may be true, there has to be an option to switch off such crash
> collection permanently or temporarily.

There is an option, and there is reportedly a bug in the handling of that
option, as was already mentioned in this thread.

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie-preferences/+bug/1437633

I was responding to the suggestion that the behavior should somehow be
dependent on whether the device is connected to wifi at the time of the
crash. That's just wrong.

> >The trouble is that, until the crash handler has finished consuming the core
> >file from the kernel and exited, the original process is blocked. So the
> >shell can't know that the process has died and move on until the crash
> >handler has finished running. (The same is true on the desktop, it's just
> >less impactful because the app is usually not full screen and blocking the UI
> >at the time.)

> Thanks for the explanation. To me, this is just all the more reason to
> have an option to disable it, maybe only for a day or a couple. Imagine
> being somewhere and urgently needing your phone which then hangs because
> some crash logs are being collected? The app that crashed might not even
> be the one you urgently need. Crash collection should, imho, not take
> precedence over the dialog to accept a call as this is still the main
> functionaly of a phone, at least for me.

While the shell can't do anything with the crashed app until the crash
handler has finished, that *shouldn't* mean that it prevents the shell from,
e.g., switching apps. This is why people were asking about crash files for
unity8. It's unexpected that a crashed app should take out the /whole/ UI,
and if that happens that's a bug in unity8, not just a bug in the app that's
crashing.

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