Comment 9 for bug 192786

Fred, sorry, I was temporarily logged in as "Apport retracing service" since I had to fix something in the retracers. These do not run on my computer, but in the Canonical data center.

If you are concerned about your privacy, then please by all means don't feel bad about not sending crashes.

If you wish, you can do the retracing on your computer as well. You can add the debug symbol apt repository

    deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse

to your apt sources, and then, when a crash happens, let apport collect information, and then cancel when it displays the report. You can install the package apport-retrace and use the apport-retrace tool to manually generate a symbolic stack trace, if you have enough bandwidth and some time. This tool has quite an extensive manpage which explains the operation.

The long-term plan is to integrate this retracing on the client side into the GUI, but it's not there yet (see bug 75901).