F19 abrt report uploader confusion

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Mar 20 21:07:55 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 14:47 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I download this:
> https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/anaconda/anaconda-19.12-1.boot.iso
> 
> 
> Short version: How do I submit crashes using the bug reporter? It
> doesn't work at all like F18. Some of the screens look the same as
> F18, most do not. The UI is so tragically hideous I'm, for the moment,
> assuming it's incomplete. The main thing I want to know is if it
> should function, and if so how.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Superfluous, ignorable, long version of my experience:
> 
> 
> 1. I get an anaconda crash.
> 2. Unknown error has occurred dialog; click on Report Bug button.
> 2. Upload the problem data to a server (?) button, I click that and it
> says the wrong settings are detected, if I click on Configure Reporter
> uploader it wants a URL.
> 3. Back to 1, Report Bug. This time click on Preferences button, I see
> three workflows and two events. Report to Fedora and Bugzilla are two
> such options, both have bugzilla configuration dialogs. Confusing.
> Filling out either one, there is no way forward, only close buttons
> all of which take me back to dialog 1 with the Report Bug button.
> 
> 
> And then the whole UI froze on me.
> 
> 
> Attempt 2, I'm able to get to the bug submission window, totally
> inadvertently, but the "processing failed" and the log shows: No
> processing for event 'report_Uploader' is defined.

It may have too old a libreport. I don't think anyone's looked at this
much, as we have a showstopper that everyone's hitting that we need to
fix; we're not really poking the rest of the install UI much right now.
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