ABRT unusable again

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 02/08/2010 05:36 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
> Michael Schwendt<mschwendt at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>>> I believe ABRT shouldn't file a bug report unless it is filled in
>>> properly.
>>
>> Yeah, some of us have pointed out that before.
>> I'm happy about every detailed backtrace I get, but I would be even more
>> happy if users contributed a tiny bit more and added comments to their
>> tickets and responded to NEEDINFO queries and gave feedback on Test
>> Updates. [...]
>
> How much more useful would it be if ABRT had a mode where executables
> that recently reported crashes are subsequently/temporarily run with
> syscall tracing in the background, so that if they crash again, then
> recent process syscall history can also be optionally included in an
> ABRT report?  This would not be hard to do with e.g. systemtap.
>
> - FChE

Such log would be nice, but it might take some time (even days) before 
the app crashes again and I can imagine that could generate quite a 
large log :-/ Maybe if it would store just last few syscalls...

J.
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