Review Request 128437: raise to core dump handlers when drkonqi is done

[Kevin Kofler]

> On Juli 13, 2016, 12:43 nachm., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > +1 to the idea
> > 
> > However, will this mean we get this awful apport "something crashed, now or in the past" tray icon in addition to Drkonqi?
> 
> Harald Sitter wrote:
>     yes. its upon ubuntu to make that go away though as their use case is more involved.
> 
> Harald Sitter wrote:
>     To expand. here's how I did this for kubuntu in kdelibs4: https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/QA/Whoopsie tldr: disable apport UI (replaced by drkonqi) but retain whoopsie (crash report sending to errors.ubuntu.com). As I mentioned, this needs dealing with in ubuntu since they essentially attach a UI to coredumps, so either that or drkonqi need disabling on their platform.
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> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>     The problem with the duplicate UI will also affect Fedora/RHEL's ABRT and probably also other similar crash handlers. In addition, I am not convinced automatic crash report sending to a downstream tracker (i.e., the part of the Apport functionality you retain in Kubuntu) is helpful. (I like how DrKonqi sends the reports directly to the actual developers.)
> 
> Harald Sitter wrote:
>     We keep drkonqi, this is an add-on to what we have. Distros being weird and thinking they know better than us is hardly our problem.

But why would we want the bugs that DrKonqi already handles forwarded to the distro's weird thing? You can hardly blame the distro's crash handler for reporting the bugs it intercepts in whatever way it wants (UI dialog, downstream tracker, etc.). How should it know that the crash was already handled elsewhere (i.e., in this case, in DrKonqi) if you rethrow it?


- Kevin


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On Juli 13, 2016, 12:40 nachm., Harald Sitter wrote:
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> (Updated Juli 13, 2016, 12:40 nachm.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcrash
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> Description
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> with the rise of useful core dump handlers such as systemd's coredump and
> ubuntu's apport it is no longer useful to handle things exclusively in
> drkonqi. it bypasses sysadmins as well as distros in debugging efforts,
> putting the entire flow of information on us.
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> the new behavior instead checks if a core pattern executable is set and if
> so re-raises the signal so the kernel jumps in and invokes the handler.
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> (this unfortunately means that the core will contain our kcrash frames,
> but that seems hardly avoidable)
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> Diffs
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>   autotests/CMakeLists.txt e442520269835df71968bf7818aa34bd8bd945cf 
>   autotests/core_patterns/exec PRE-CREATION 
>   autotests/core_patterns/no-exec PRE-CREATION 
>   autotests/coreconfigtest.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/CMakeLists.txt e733be69c6ca6e6c1a0608c8910cf4a9b52ffcc9 
>   src/coreconfig.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/coreconfig_p.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kcrash.cpp b8c6477a70291ca9c1f0efef3bba061b6af247b0 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128437/diff/
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> Testing
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> builds and passes
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> Thanks,
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> Harald Sitter
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