On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:36:03 +0100, Nicolas wrote:
Le samedi 16 janvier 2010 à 15:09 -0500, Tom Lane a écrit :
> Users have to provide information
> about what they were doing, copies of input files, etc etc just the
> same as in a manually-initiated bug report.
IMHO the big plus of abrt is it triggers even when the user is not
giving his full attention to the app and not checking what it does
exactly when it crashes (typical example is multitasking and doing stuff
in 3-4 apps when one dies). There is a huge class of crashes that were
not reported before because the user had no idea what the app was doing
exactly when it crashed and could not reproduce it with debuginfo later.
A downside is that ABRT is triggered for all sorts of weird memory/heap
corruption that isn't reproducible. Stability problems with RAM chips
are widespread.
A bugzilla stock response that points at "memtester" and "memtest86+"
will likely be needed more often.