Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:45:18 +0200 From: Ralf To: xubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] "System program problem detected"
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:21:32 +0800, lukshun...@gmail.com wrote: >On Saturday, July 11, 2015 06:49 PM, Michael Höhne wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:23:22 +0800 >> lukshun...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Saturday, July 11, 2015 12:23 PM, blind Pete wrote: >>>> Rob Ward wrote: >>> Maybe searching for "apport" and "whoopsie" with your preferred >>> search engine will give you more information. :-) >> And if someone really doesn't like it: You are free to uninstall >> them ;-) > >IMHO, any package that "phones home", for whatever purpose :-), should >be installed opt-in, accompanied by succinct explanation to the user. >After all, free software is about user empowerment. Full ACK, since a user unlikely can be aware about all the software that by default is installed by a OOTB working distro. However, it's an option to read about "apport" and "whoopsie", balance pros and cons and as the case may be to purge the packages. If you manually report a bug to a bug tracker a developer advice you how to provide additional information. The developer might ask you to post a log or debug file and informs you to read it first and remove passwords and similar critical data. Apport "[...] You can click on "Show Details..." to see what data it collected [...] Apport is not enabled by default in stable releases, even if it is installed. The automatic crash interception component of apport is disabled by default in stable releases for a number of reasons: Apport collects potentially sensitive data, such as core dumps, stack traces, and log files. They can contain passwords, credit card numbers, serial numbers, and other private material. [...]" - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport Whoopsi "Invitation for metrics collection For any administrator, after the first time only that they respond to an error alert, a second alert should appear to invite them to opt in to metrics collection. (The “Esc” key should activate “Don’t Send” in this alert, but the “Enter” key should not do anything.) [...] The “Privacy…” button should open System Settings to the Privacy panel. Choosing “Send” should be equivalent to checking “Send occasional system information to Canonical” in the Privacy settings. [...] Along with the report, Whoopsie sends an obfuscated (SHA512) system identifier (DMI system UUID). This information is collected so that we can show a graph of the average errors per calendar day. It also lets us answer questions like, “is Ubuntu more stable in the first week of use or subsequent weeks?”" - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker So root privileges are likely needed to get the unique ID of a computer. DMI $ sudo dmidecode | grep -i uuid $ sudo cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid Collecting such data has less to do with a serious bug report, this is what we expect from restricted operating systems. Some might still think I spread FUD. It's the individual user's self-responsibility to balance pros and cons. Regards, Ralf -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel