Comment 15 for bug 224966

Summary: crash exists after removing compiz, viewing content at http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986
with firefox still causes firefox->Xorg crash, black screen, X reset.

Even after activation, apport will not provide crash dump. At best it intermittently leaves
behind a .lock file in /var/crash

Well, I suppose since compiz was removed, it is not compiz's fault...also still can't get apport to do anything

$ sudo apt-get remove compiz

is it gone...? Yes.

$ sudo apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
     1:0.7.4-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy/main Packages

Now to try to get apport going

emacs /etc/default/apport
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
enabled=1
# set maximum core dump file size (default: 209715200 bytes == 200 MB)
maxsize=209715200

*REBOOT*
log back in
bring up firefox
visit http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986
X crashes...black screen...login again...no apport response
only a .lock file in /var/crash

The following apport behavior seems screwy... according to the source in
/etc/init.d/apport it is supposed to recognize that it has been started already
when started a 2nd time and give a different exit code.

sudo /etc/init.d/apport startsudo /etc/init.d/apport start
 * Starting automatic crash report generation: apport [ OK ]
pjb@pjb-linux-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apport start
 * Starting automatic crash report generation: apport [ OK ]
pjb@pjb-linux-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apport start
 * Starting automatic crash report generation: apport [ OK ]
pjb@pjb-linux-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apport start
 * Starting automatic crash report generation: apport [ OK ]

Is there some other setting I could be missing to get apport to work correctly?

Anyway, I will try to go through the mozilla backtrace procedure later when I can have some time.

Thanks in advance for reading all of this.
Dr Paul Brewer