Public bug reported:
Every crash report that gets fixed in a package upload winds up with some
fuzziness in the bucket showing a small number of crash reports in the very
version that fixes it. E.g.:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fubuntuone-installer%3AGError%3Afinished%3Afunction
(bug #853060)
This makes it impossible to tell with certainty by looking at
errors.ubuntu.com if a crash is really fixed, or if it's just been made
less frequent. We need to have good data here to be able to use
errors.u.c for decision making around SRU publication.
The suspicion is that the rule preventing launchpad bugs from being
filed when the running process doesn't match the file on disk is not
being applied correctly to whoopsie. It definitely should be.
(It's possible that this is therefore a duplicate of bug #1020994. I'm
not sure, I haven't looked at the code.)
I would also argue that, if this happens in the "system service" case,
we should not show the user any crash dialog for it either, so long as
we don't have support for leading them to a targeted update to fix the
crash. We get no useful crash information from the user in this case,
and the risk of confusion from the dialog is great when it's a system
service crash. As a matter of policy, front-end applications need to be
resilient in the face of failures of back-end daemons.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: apport 2.4-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 20 12:34:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (70 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2012-05-04T17:01:02
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Status: Triaged
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: High
Status: Triaged
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: High
Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Status: Triaged
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal running-unity
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don't report python crashes for programs that don't match the file on
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