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gnome-session package

  1. Bug #257250
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 257250

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 257250] Re: gnome-session segfault during login

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:58:44AM -0000, Chris Coulson wrote:
> Matt - I know this might sound like a silly question, but is Apport
> enabled? You can check by typing the following in a terminal:
>
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
>
> ...it should look something like "|apport %p %s %c". If it reads "core",
> then Apport is not catching any crashes.

It is enabled, and has caught several other crashes around the same time, so
this is a bit of a mystery (which I'll take up in another bug report if I
can isolate the cause).

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 - mdz