Should collect xsession errors when the issue happens, not when the user reports it
Bug #870003 reported by
Sebastien Bacher
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Medium
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Unassigned |
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)
Changed in apport (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Martin Pitt (pitti) → nobody |
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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.