dump dir upload page not intuitive
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
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Jan Hutar Satellite QA
jhutar(a)redhat.com Red Hat, Inc.