apport not functioning?

[phirestalker]

for a while now, I can't remember how long since crashes are so rare, but when they do happen apport doesn't pop up anymore to offer me the option of creating a bug report no matter what application crashes. I have pokes around with apport just now and here is some console output:

phire@phirestalker:~$ /usr/share/apport/apport
apport (pid 29225) Mon Sep 24 11:53:27 2007: Unhandled exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 199, in <module>
    pid = os.environ['CORE_PID']
  File "UserDict.py", line 22, in __getitem__
    raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'CORE_PID'
pid: 29225, uid: 1000, gid: 1000, euid: 1000, egid: 1000
environment: {'GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID': 'Default', 'LESSOPEN': '| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s', 'LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH': '/usr/lib/dri', 'LOGNAME': 'phire', 'USER': 'phire', 'PATH': '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games', 'HOME': '/home/phire', 'DISPLAY': ':0.0', 'SSH_AGENT_PID': '6033', 'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8', 'TERM': 'xterm', 'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'XAUTHORITY': '/tmp/.gdm2427YT', 'SESSION_MANAGER': 'local/phirestalker:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5990', 'SHLVL': '2', 'USERNAME': 'phire', 'GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION': 'local', 'SSH_AUTH_SOCK': '/tmp/ssh-zbkyDa5990/agent.5990', 'GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET': '/tmp/keyring-pLXU6p/socket', 'GDMSESSION': 'gnome', 'DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS': 'unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-yd51EuiIQE,guid=09adbcb9bbbbca08ad226d0046f2f25f', '_': '/usr/share/apport/apport', 'DESKTOP_SESSION': 'gnome', 'LESSCLOSE': '/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s', 'GTK_MODULES': 'gail:atk-bridge', 'HISTCONTROL': 'ignoredups', 'PWD': '/home/phire', 'GTK_RC_FILES': '/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/phire/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2', 'LS_COLORS': 'no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.flac=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.mpc=01;35:*.ogg=01;35:*.wav=01;35:'}

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 24 11:54:32 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux phirestalker 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Do you have new files for crashes in /var/crash?

[phirestalker (firestalker1-deactivatedaccount)]

actually I do, however it seems to not have all the ones I have
witnessed, but there is one for yesterday, is it possible it's been set
to only catch certain crashes by mistake and also the popup window
turned off?

dAniel hAhler wrote:
> Do you have new files for crashes in /var/crash?
>
>
> ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

[phirestalker (firestalker1-deactivatedaccount)]

I have since upgraded to gutsy and it is making the crash files, however I would like the old behavior where it pops up and asks me to report the bug when a program crashes instead of me having to go to /var/crash and double click the file, is there any way to set this?