On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Steve Langasek wrote: > The only part that should be running when not on wifi is the crash > collection. We certainly *should* be running that when not on wifi; you > don't get a second chance to run the kernel crash handler, and we want to > know about crashes that only happen when not on wifi (including, possibly, > crashes that happen /because/ you're not on wifi).
While that may be true, there has to be an option to switch off such crash collection permanently or temporarily. This must not be enforced on the user, which is the way it is right now, if I understood all this correctly. Not only because some people might not feel comfortable with this informationbeing sent before they can review it. > The trouble is that, until the crash handler has finished consuming the core > file from the kernel and exited, the original process is blocked. So the > shell can't know that the process has died and move on until the crash > handler has finished running. (The same is true on the desktop, it's just > less impactful because the app is usually not full screen and blocking the UI > at the time.) Thanks for the explanation. To me, this is just all the more reason to have an option to disable it, maybe only for a day or a couple. Imagine being somewhere and urgently needing your phone which then hangs because some crash logs are being collected? The app that crashed might not even be the one you urgently need. Crash collection should, imho, not take precedence over the dialog to accept a call as this is still the main functionaly of a phone, at least for me. Cheers, Torsten -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone Status in Apport crash detection/reporting: Confirmed Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I can trigger a crash easily on my phone via bug 1262711. Other bugs are available. When that happens my phone appears to freeze. I am unable to do anything for approximately 1 to 1.5 minutes. As a user my initial gut reaction is to reboot the phone, thus losing the crash report, and wasting my time. Having the phone lock up for 1.5 minutes is a terrible user experience. Can we fix/mitigate/workaround that? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: apport 2.13.2-0ubuntu2 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-mako armv7l ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2 Architecture: armhf CrashReports: 664:32011:110:10083:2014-02-10 15:41:18.152893384 +0000:2014-02-10 15:11:09.169231740 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_lib_arm-linux-gnueabihf_upstart-app-launch_desktop-hook.32011.crash 640:0:110:1681527:2014-02-10 15:12:10.985193887 +0000:2014-02-10 15:12:05.639489630 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_bin_powerd.0.crash 640:0:110:21384:2014-02-11 07:58:44.876281991 +0000:2014-02-11 07:58:44.876281991 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_sbin_system-image-dbus.0.crash 640:32011:110:17122318:2014-02-11 09:19:49.915478726 +0000:2014-02-11 09:18:20.850439824 +0000:/var/crash/_usr_bin_unity8.32011.crash Date: Tue Feb 11 09:20:15 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-11 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) - armhf (20140211) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=linux PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1278780/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp