In libreoffice 4.2.8 on Ubuntu 14.04, when the program crashes (or is made to crash with pkill -11), apport kicks in. At the next libreoffice run, it offers the user to try and recover the document that was being worked on when the crash occurred.
In contrast, in libreoffice 5.1.6 on Ubuntu 16.04, when the program crashes, its built-in document recovery handler kicks in, offering the user to recover the document immediately. In that case, the built-in handler is hooked to a SIGSEGV handler that prevents the creation of a core file. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537566 Title: LibreOffice crashed but apport didn't log a crash file in /var/crash despite being enabled Status in apport package in Ubuntu: New Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: What is expected to happen is when LibreOffice crashes, a crash report is created in the /var/crash folder. What happened instead is LibreOffice crashed but apport didn't create a crash file in the /var/crash folder, despite running and being enabled. Apport creating crash files in /var/crash used to happen in Xenial, and in prior releases. Other programs that crash are picked up by apport so appears LO+apport issue. LibreOffice has reference to placing crash files as per: cat /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc | grep crash CrashDirectory=${$BRAND_BASE_DIR/program/bootstraprc:UserInstallation}/crash I don't have any 3rd party LO plugins installed. apt-show-versions -r libreoffice* libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer:i386 not installed libreoffice-base-core:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-base-core:i386 not installed libreoffice-calc:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-calc:i386 not installed libreoffice-common:all/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-core:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-core:i386 not installed libreoffice-dev:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-dev:i386 not installed libreoffice-draw:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-draw:i386 not installed libreoffice-gnome:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-gnome:i386 not installed libreoffice-gtk:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-gtk:i386 not installed libreoffice-help-en-us:all/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu4 uptodate libreoffice-impress:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-impress:i386 not installed libreoffice-java-common:all/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-math:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-math:i386 not installed libreoffice-ogltrans:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-ogltrans:i386 not installed libreoffice-pdfimport:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-pdfimport:i386 not installed libreoffice-style-breeze:all/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-style-galaxy:all/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-style-human:all/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-writer:amd64/xenial 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 uptodate libreoffice-writer:i386 not installed cat /etc/default/apport # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it # you can temporarily override this with # sudo service apport start force_start=1 enabled=1 cat /etc/apport/crashdb.conf # map crash database names to CrashDatabase implementations and URLs default = 'ubuntu' def get_oem_project(): '''Determine OEM project name from Distribution Channel Descriptor Return None if it cannot be determined or does not exist. ''' try: dcd = open('/var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel').read() if dcd.startswith('canonical-oem-'): return dcd.split('-')[2] except IOError: return None databases = { 'ubuntu': { 'impl': 'launchpad', 'bug_pattern_url': 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/bugpatterns/bugpatterns.xml', 'dupdb_url': 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/apport-duplicates', 'distro': 'ubuntu', 'problem_types': ['Bug', 'Package'], 'escalation_tag': 'bugpattern-needed', 'escalated_tag': 'bugpattern-written', }, 'canonical-oem': { 'impl': 'launchpad', 'bug_pattern_url': 'http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/bugpatterns/bugpatterns.xml', 'project': get_oem_project(), }, 'debug': { # for debugging 'impl': 'memory', 'bug_pattern_url': '/tmp/bugpatterns.xml', 'distro': 'debug' }, } mo ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: libreoffice-calc 1:5.0.2-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-6.17-generic 4.3.3 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-6-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity Date: Sun Jan 24 17:03:37 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-18 (37 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-01-20 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1537566/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
