I would like to use the extensive features of apport to assist with
local crash analysis, but am running into several problems.
The scenario:
On a network of machines, there is a machine, called , on which
a program crashes. Another machine, , is designated to do crash
analysis, in particular retracing, using apport-chroot.
Because the crashes may involve locally developed or unreleased
packages, they don't necessarily need to be reported to Launchpad.
Problem #1: How do I setup apport to send crash reports to a local
machine and not to Launchpad?
For the sake of argument, let's suppose the crash reports will simply be
copied over to for analysis.
Problem #2: The report generated right after a crash happens, doesn't
include the required field Package in the report. Only when the user
clicks on "Report Problem", this information is included, including an
incomplete stack trace (see Problem #3), but I want to be able to do
unattended crash reporting.
I reported this problem originally as a bug: LP: #487759 [1], and Martin
Pitt explained that this info isn't collected right after the crash for
performance reasons.
He suggested that I use apport-retrace's -R option to rebuild the crash
report. The problem is that this requires me to also use the -o option.
Unfortunately, this causes apport-retrace to attempt a retrace. Back to
square one (well, Problem #3 actually).
Problem #3: The backtrace from a crash report (even after retracing on
is incomplete (no function parameters, often even no function
names at all).
When I view a crash report on , it contains an incomplete
stacktrace. Reasonable, as doesn't have the necessary debugging
symbol packages installed.
But when I analyze a crash on using apport-chroot in retrace
mode, the stack trace is still incomplete. It seems that (still have to
verify that) apport-chroot/retrace doesn't do a new retrace if the crash
report already contains one.
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to Martin Pitt for creating such a wonderfully useful tool!
Kind regards,
Alain
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