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  1. Bug #479365
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Comment 2 for bug 479365

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 479365] [NEW] assertion failure

 affects ubuntu/samba
 importance wishlist

Launchpad Bug Tracker [2009-11-10 21:54 -0000]:
> "The problem cannot be reported: The program crashed on an assertion
> failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not
> support reporting these crashes."

This is deliberate, to avoid creating a massive amount of bug reports
which are useless for developers. glibc and glib's assertion messages
are now fixed to set __abort_msg (symbol in glibc) which apport reads.
Apparently samba uses its own assert macros and thus should be updated
to either use the standard C assert or set __abort_msg.

(See 05_store_assert_message.patch in glib2.0 source)