Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
We have set up some pretty handy automatic file collection stuff for
Xorg, so when bugs are filed against an xorg package we have the files
needed for debugging the problems.
A portion of the bugs filed against gdm actually are xorg bugs, and
these get reassigned to xorg. However, since they were initially filed
against gdm, they lack all the info we need to debug.
I would propose adding the xorg apport hook to gdm as well, as it will
solve this problem.
Further, this will help with gdm, since it collects files like
/var/log/gdm/:0.log*, ~/.config/monitors.xml, etc. that you probably
need for troubleshooting gdm bugs unrelated to xorg. And in addition to
that, this will make it easy for you to add other files or information
that we wouldn't need for xorg but you might want for other kinds of gdm
bugs.
With this hook, you can utilize it for bug reporters in three ways:
* Automatically run when user encounters a crash (in theory*)
* ubuntu-bug gdm
* apport-collect <gdm-bug-number>
It is also possible to hook into apport via "Report a Problem" type
links in GUI's (not doable for xorg, but maybe gdm or other gnome apps
would like to have such a link...)
* - I found with xserver that it had its own signal handling I had to
recode in order for segfaults to trigger apport correctly. So YMMV, but
that would be a problem unrelated to this hook.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Add customized apport support to gdm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368256
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