Oh ok.  I always see a ton of "debugging symbols not found" in the apport
stuff, and I assumed it had to do with that.  I guess that's more likely to
have to do with the user not having a -dbg version of the software.

On 10/1/07, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Mackenzie Morgan [2007-09-28 23:37 -0400]:
> > The apport-gtk also seems to send very little actual debugging
> information,
> > probably because Ubuntu's default is 0 for coredumps.  I set mine to
> > unlimited and noticed that I get somewhat useful tracebacks when
> programs
> > crash now.
>
> The ulimit does not affect apport. Our kernel is patched to ignore the
> ulimit for apport (specifically, if /proc/kernel/core_pattern starts
> with a pipe).
>
> Thus, the information apport sends includes a core dump. In the data
> center, we have bots running which recombine those core dumps and
> debug symbols into symbolic stack traces. Look at [1] for example.
>
> Pitti
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/146840
>
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