ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:23:38PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> Am Montag, den 23.06.2014, 17:54 +0100 schrieb Evan Dandrea:
>> > On 23 June 2014 13:26, Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >> good that you ask this. We don't have that hooked into our process
>> > >> yet, but are working on this as we speak. We basically have to first
>> > >> get a view worked into errors.ubuntu.com that allows us to more
>> > >> effectively use that tracker for touch images.
>
>> > > Related:- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/+bug/1332925
>
>> > > Whoopsie has never uploaded crash reports as far as I can see. You
>> > > *have* to manually upload them, at least on mobile.
>
>> > This hasn't been our experience, but Brian is now looking into the bug
>> > to find out why this is happening for you.
>
>> > It is a bit of a moot point as all the stacktraces are corrupt on
>> > Touch right now. Matthias and Brian have been looking into this as it
>> > appears to be a low-level bug.
>
>> they do not get uploaded simply because we do not have any cron-like
>> daemon installed ... i plan to seed anacron [1] this week (and
>> disable/divert the unnecessary /etc/cron.daily entries) for log rotation
>> etc
>
> whoopsie runs as a long-lived daemon that uses inotify to detect new crashes
> and submit them automatically (given the proper whoopsie configuration to
> support autosubmit).  Cron is not required at all for this.

OK, so something fishy is going on here if we really get no
autosubmits (do we?).

Could someone check if the config is correct by default? What would I
have to look for?

>
> The only place where cron is involved is in the apport job to clean up
> previous crash files.
>

Couldn't that daemon also a) delete the crash files it successfully
submitted and b) also take care of regular clean up when its not
autosubmitting?

 - Alexander