[Bug 174195] Re: crash handler not catching crashes

2007-12-05 Thread Brian Murray
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Apport, the automatic crash reporting too, is disabled when a release becomes final so this is by design. Additionally, crash reports about software not provided by Ubuntu (GoogleEarth for example) will also not

[Bug 174195] Re: crash handler not catching crashes

2007-12-05 Thread Gene Caldwell
No, I'm sorry, it doesn't answer my question. Though, it may very well be more an issue that I disagree with. Why on earth would Ubuntu NOT want to collect information about crashes that occur with Ubuntu supplied software ? You have an automatic crash handler that CAN collect crash reports for

[Bug 174195] Re: crash handler not catching crashes

2007-12-05 Thread Gene Caldwell
I'd like to add that Compiz crashes once a week for me with Gutsy on a fresh install, even though I do have crash handler turned on in the advanced settings manager for compiz, but I have no clue as to why its shutting down. I don't see a single bug report on this behavior in launchpad for compiz,