On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 14:40 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Apport sends complete core dumps, which is a very bad idea. The dumps > > can be huge (for desktop applications they often grow beyond 200MB) and > > they can contain gazillions of sensitive information. > > But Apport is written already, and it's also the path that Windows > crash report and Mozilla's talkback tools have taken; these > corporations might not represent our ideals, but they present examples > of deployed and working solutions.
Windows minidumps are typically <100 KB. My understand is that Mozilla is using basically the same format with extensions to cover other platforms and architectures. > I don't think it's still 200 MB compressed, but some input from Ubuntu > folks could help. Yes, the example shown in the screenshot is much smaller than that. There must be some trimming. > > Using a central server for symbol lookup like Ben proposed looks like a > > better idea. It needs gdb to be adapted or wrapped to access them > > correctly, though. <snip> In fact, reading through that Wiki page suggests that the various "retrace" tools do that. So perhaps Apport would be suitable for Debian, though we would need to expand architecture support. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds
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