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. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
