abrt backtrace failures

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Wed May 23 04:06:20 UTC 2012


During F17 RC testing, twice now [1][2] I've been unable to submit
bugs using abrt because the backtrace was considered "unusable" by
abrt.

1. Is there a problem with the debuginfo's or abrt functionality
during this F17 final RC stage?

2. What happened to the Retrace Server?  I don't see that option for
F17, only Local GNU Debugger.

3. Can the abrt behavior be changed to allow the bug to be created,
but perhaps without the "bad" backtrace, or perhaps marked in some way
so it is known to have a "bad" backtrace? 

It is still helpful to the bug reporter to have abrt create the bug
with as much info as possible, with the expectation that better/usable
backtraces could be attached later manually if possible.

It is frustrating to be informed of a crash by abrt and go through all
the effort to submit the bug report via abrt, only to be told "sorry,
I'm not going to let you submit this bug report because it doesn't
meet our standards of quality".  Frankly, it's a waste of the
reporter's time and it conditions the user to not care to submit bugs
in the future.

Thanks,
Chuck

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823755
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824228


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