Re: dump dir upload page not intuitive
Hello,
I agree that from the text it isn't clear, what is the expected name
of the archive to be uploaded so I've created an issue on github.
See https://github.com/abrt/faf/issues/789
Kind regards,
Martin Kutlak
Red Hat
On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 21:39, Jan Hutař <jhutar(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> because automatic reporting failed ('report_uReport' exited with 1),
> I have attempted to upload crash dir manually and failed as well.
>
> First I have not read whole text and just did:
>
> cd /var/spool/abrt
> sudo tar cf 'aaa.tar.gz' Python3-2019-05-11-21\:14\:04-25765
>
> and uploaded that. Page said "Wrong archive file name".
>
> Then I realized that maybe I need to create tar without dir and use all
> the tar options mentioned there:
>
> cd /var/spool/abrt/Python3-2019-05-11-21:14:04-25765
> sudo tar -pczf /tmp/aaa.tar.gz *
>
> Same result. Then I noticed page says "into 'tar.gz' file" which is
to
> me unusual name, but I tried:
>
> cd /var/spool/abrt/Python3-2019-05-11-21:14:04-25765
> sudo tar -pczf /tmp/tar.gz *
>
> Same result. Now I realized that click to "upload" link in "Problem
> Reporting" took me to URL:
>
>
https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/dumpdirs/new/Python3-2019-05-11-21:...
>
> So maybe page expects that?
>
> cd /var/spool/abrt/Python3-2019-05-11-21:14:04-25765
> sudo tar -pczf /tmp/Python3-2019-05-11-21\:14\:04-25765.tar.gz *
>
> That finally worked and I got "Dump dir archive already exists." so
> looks like something before worked.
>
> Could the page be made more fool-proof?
>
> Maybe:
>
> - mentioning in which directory to run the tar command
> - menitioning expected name of the archive
> - or ability to consume fine no matter what name it have
> - maybe also showing note that file is already uploaded
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Jan
>
>
>
> --
> Jan Hutar Satellite QA
> jhutar(a)redhat.com Red Hat, Inc.
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