Public bug reported:
Most of the time, apport gives no indication of _which_ application
crashed until you get redirected to the bugs.lauchpad.net page.
Currently, it shows on the title bar simply "Crash report" (no further
detail) and the window contents shows:
Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an internal error.
With no details on which application crashed. Some users may only wish
to submit bugs on particular packages (or rather some users may not wish
to submit bugs on particular packages), so allowing them to make the
decision from the outset seems the best approach: if we don't do this,
users may decide not to submit any bug reports as their trust in the
tool becomes lessened.
Clicking "show details" just shows a tree widget with lots of key/value pairs,
but still no obvious indication of what crashed.
Clicking "examine locally" again shows no details of the crashing application
(window title is now only "Apport"). However, you can now guess the application
from the last bullet item which shows the crash file name which includes the
application name (in my case
"/var/crash/_usr_lib_unity_unity-panel-service.1000.crash" denoting
unity-panel-service crashed).
I would recommend that apport be enhanced such that _every_ window and
every title bar show the user which application crashed.
Having full details of crashing applications is particularly useful of
course when you have _multiple_ apport windows pop up due to >1
application crashing.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: apport-gtk 1.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-16.25-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-16-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 22 15:28:23 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (41 days ago)
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise
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