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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.  
 
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Brian Murray                                                 @ubuntu.com

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