Op vrijdag 27-11-2009 om 22:44 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Martin Pitt: > Alain Kalker [2009-11-26 2:25 -0000]: > > How do I pass that option to apport-retrace from apport-chroot? > > You can't: In a chroot (especially a minimal pbuilder-like one) the > system relies on _existing_ and correct Package: and Dependencies: > fields in order to be able to install the missing packages and > -dbgsyms. So you can't rebuild package information in a chroot, this > has to happen on the system where the crash happened.
Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding. At the time I wrote down that question, I didn't know enough of what apport-retrace -R is supposed to do. For proper crash analysis, it's important to gather as much evidence as possible, as soon as possible, so I assumed apport's crash interceptor would gather enough information to create a 1:1 mapping to an application's requirements. Enough information to do offline analysis on. This does raise another question: why do you use a package's Dependencies and not the actual libraries from ProcMaps (including that is a very smart move BTW :-) ) to decide which -dbgsym packages to install? For crash analysis it is not that important which packages a package _claims_ to Depend on, it matters which libraries were _actually in its address space_ when it crashed. For example, an application might have pulled in a library from another package during dynamic linking, or it might have dlopen'ed a plugin library either of which were not explicitly listed as a dependency. Heck, even a piece of malware might have tricked the application into loading a totally unrelated library. That's what crash analysis is supposed to concern itself with, IMO :-) Kind regards, Alain -- apport doesn't include Package in report when invoked on core dump https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487759 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
