[Bug 553556] Re: Need way to examine .crash files manually

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Need way to examine .crash files manually

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  Invariably people post .crash files to bug reports, see lp #543725 as
  an example.  There are two reasons for this.  One is that the crashing
  system is so buggered up that they either don't have network or can't
  run firefox and don't know about apport-cli.  Second is that the crash
  got marked unreportable due to older installed sw, but they still want
  to have the crash examined; for instance as a developer I might be
  trying to troubleshoot a crash but don't want to update to absolute
  latest bits for some reason.

  The workaround I use is to download the .crash file, open it in emacs
  and delete out the UnreportableResason section, save, then run apport-
  cli -c *.crash, poke my way through the menus and waits as it uploads
  as a new private bug to launchpad.  Then I can look at that and
  examine the stacktrace, and then mark the new private bug as a dupe of
  the original bug report, and copy the stacktrace over to the original
  bug.  I tag accordingly to get a retrace later.

  That works but is rather unintuitive and labor intensive.  It would be
  wonderful if apport gave a more direct way of doing this, and
  especially nice if it could do it without requiring me to file a bug
  report (all I want is the stacktrace and maybe a few of the other
  collected files).

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