On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:47:28AM +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mardi 10 novembre 2009 à 13:18 -0800, Brian Murray a écrit : > > > By the way, I've also written the Wiki page about debugging the GNOME > > > System Tools, since the commands to do so are really hard to guess. This > > > allows easy bug triaging for this package, and makes this secret trick > > > available to everyone: > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGnomeSystemTools > > > > This is fantastic but I wonder if there is some way to make into an > > apport hook, that way it could be run for everyone reporting a bug about > > gnome-system-tools. > I've thought about it too, but I'm seeing a major problem for that: we don't > have logs stored anywhere on the system, which means you have to reproduce the > problem manually to get them. Maybe it could be good to, say, have a > file where the logs for the previous session are kept, and they could > then be attached automatically. But the current design does not make > this trivial since all the modules are started individually by D-Bus - > we would need a bit of tweaking.
I have not looked at it in depth but some of the apport hooks utilize interactive debugging. For an example look at the storage symptom which can be found at /usr/share/apport/symptoms/storage.py. -- Brian Murray @ubuntu.com
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