abrtd - how to remove

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 13:07 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 19:39 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> On 12/13/2011 03:26 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:57:54 -0500
> >> > Genes MailLists<lists at sapience.com>  wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>    I just had the lovely experience of abrt trying to be helpful - a GUI
> >> >> crash - and wanting to download 1.2 GB of debuginfo files including
> >> >> things it quite obviously (to a human) does not need.
> >> >
> >> > It's not bright in some cases. Just tell it not to. The newest version of
> >> > abrt will upload dumps to a server to crunch instead which is a lot more
> >> > sociable.
> >>
> >> Which file sizes are you talking about?
> >>
> >> If these files are getting too big, users with, say GSM or low-bandwidth
> >> upstream connections may disagree.
> >>
> >> At least around here, it's common that a home user's DSL or cable
> >> connection's upstream bandwidth is a magnitude smaller than his
> >> downstream bandwidth.
> >
> > I would expect that in both cases abrt is still uploading the dump,
> > except that in the local case it's also uploading symbols, so the upload
> > is larger. Or is this wrong?
> 
> When not using the retrace server, abrt usually just uploads the text
> backtrace, not the coredump.  (I believe you can instruct it to do so,
> but it doesn't do so by default and I have never needed to.)  When
> using the retrace server, abrt anonymously uploads the coredump to the
> retrace server, creates a text backtrace, and sends that back to your
> computer, whereupon you can submit the text backtrace to bugzilla or
> do whatever else you want to with it.
> 
> In my experience, the coredump being uploaded is several orders of
> magnitude smaller than the debuginfo packages I'd need to download to
> perform a backtrace locally, so it still saves me time even though my
> download speed is 3x faster than my upload speed.

OK, good to know.

poc