On Sunday 25 October 2009 16:05:50 Gene Czarcinski wrote: > Fedora 12 seems to have some good improvements as far as making it easy to > report bugs (send reports to bugzilla). For example, when an SELinux > problem occurs, you can send a report to BZ using setroubleshoot ... it > packages all the info, you feed it your BZ id and password and off the > report goes ... neat! > > Then there is the new abrt. It is suppose to detect "application" crashes > and then allow the user to report the problem ... great idea ... but ... > > I may be missing something but documentation for abrt seems a bit light. > Furthermore, I do not understand how problems are handled ... or maybe I > have found some abrt bugs ... I don't know. > > There are a lot of BZ reports against abrt but one that hits home to me is > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528395 > > Until I saw this report, I did not know that I would need to invoke > abrt-gui as root to see a number of the reports. This should be fixed! A > user should not need to su to root and then run abrt-gui from the command > line to do reporting on things like kerneloops ... in fact, until you do > this, you may be completely unaware of such problems. > > I suggest that this be fixed BEFORE F12 is released! Even more of a problem is that even if you do invoke abrt-gui as root, you still cannot report problems! Gene -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
