Ubuntu
whoopsie package

report_crashes setting not written

Bug #1756937 reported by Brian Murray
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whoopsie (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Brian Murray
Bionic
Fix Released
Medium
Brian Murray
whoopsie-preferences (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Bionic
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

whoopsie was built with two settings, report_metrics (statistics like popcon - currently unused) and report_crashes (for reporting crash reports to the Error Tracker). However, only report_metrics gets written to '/etc/whoopsie' while the setting for report_crashes is defined by having whoopsie.disable. This complicates matters as there are two places to look for whoopsie settings '/etc/whoopsie' and checking for a .disable file. It'd be best if "report_crashes" was also written to '/etc/whoopsie'.

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lp:whoopsie
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
tags: added: bionic
Francis Ginther (fginther)
tags: added: id-5aaff7259cadf6f1ba99d7fa
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

/etc/whoopsie is created in Ubuntu 16.04 if you uncheck or check "Send occasional system information to Canonical" in ubuntu-system-settings.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

However, what is written is "report_metrics" which is not read by whoopsie. So to avoid any confusion the best approach seems to be to just remove /etc/whoopsie.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Additionally in 18.04 there is nothing like "Send occasional system information to Canonical" in gnome-control-center - only the report crashes option appears.

Changed in whoopsie-preferences (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in whoopsie (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package whoopsie - 0.2.62

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whoopsie (0.2.62) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Remove /etc/whoopsie file as its contents are not read by whoopsie.
    (LP: #1756937)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:38:15 -0700

Changed in whoopsie (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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