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  1. Bug #1036114
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1036114

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Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) wrote : Re: (usability) Apport dialog asks a question that user has no way of answering

Hi, Benjamin -

> But the window in the screenshot is called "Apport"? Are you sure?

Yeah, fair question. The apport bug reporting program lets packages provide custom scripts that help handle bug reports in their area. You can see them under /usr/share/apport/package-hooks . Brian's referring to /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_xorg.py , which is provided by xdiagnose, and used by many X-related packages. As you can see by the many symlinks to it in that directory!

> Do you have a quick shortcut for a (preferably harmless) crash that will trigger Apport so I can click around and get to terms with the current setup?

You can start a program, then kill it with a signal 11, to make it segfault, from a terminal. Like, in a terminal:

  $ xterm &
  [2] 10169
  $ kill -11 %2

When you run it in the background, with '&' after the command, bash shows you its job id, 2 in this case, and the system PID, 10169. Bash's builtin 'kill' interprets a plain number as a pid, and %number as a job id. So

  kill -11 10169

would have been the same in this case.

Hope some of this info can help you keep digging. Thanks.