Apport intercepts Program crashes, collects debugging information about the crash and the operating system environment, and sends it to bug trackers in a standardized form. It also offers the user to report a bug about a package, with again collecting as much information about it as possible.
It currently supports
- Crashes from standard signals (SIGSEGV, SIGILL, etc.) through the kernel coredump handler (in piping mode)
- Unhandled Python exceptions
- GTK, KDE, and command line user interfaces
- Packages can ship hooks for collecting speficic data (such as /var/log/Xorg.0.log for X.org, or modified gconf settings for GNOME programs)
- apt/dpkg and rpm backend (in production use in Ubuntu and OpenSUSE)
- Reprocessing a core dump and debug symbols for post-mortem (and preferably server-side) generation of fully symbolic stack traces (apport-retrace)
- Reporting bugs to Launchpad (more backends can be easily added)
Project information
- Part of:
- Ubuntu Error Tracker
- Maintainer:
- Martin Pitt
- Driver:
- Apport upstream developers
- Development focus:
- Programming Languages:
- Python
- Licences:
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GNU GPL v2
()
View full history Series and milestones
Apport trunk series is the current focus of development
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1278780: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone
Reported on 2014-03-24 -
Bug #1296161: apport kde crashes when trying to report a bug of another crash
Reported on 2014-03-22 -
Bug #1268595: Apport does not use default web browser
Reported on 2014-03-22 -
Bug #1296026: apport crashes at reading cgroup
Reported on 2014-03-22 -
Bug #1278617: Fails to open web browser
Reported on 2014-02-10
More contributors Top contributors
- Martin Pitt 533 points
- Alberto Salvia Novella 42 points
- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff 35 points
- Sylvain Viart 34 points
- Gim H 33 points
All packages Packages in Distributions
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“apport” source package in Trusty
Version 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 uploaded on 2014-04-15 -
“apport” source package in Saucy
Version 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 uploaded on 2013-12-06 -
“apport” source package in Raring
Version 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5 uploaded on 2013-10-24 -
“apport” source package in Quantal
Version 2.6.1-0ubuntu13 uploaded on 2013-10-24 -
“apport” source package in Precise
Version 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6 uploaded on 2013-10-24
All questions Latest questions
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How to authenticate apport-retrace to Launchpad?
Posted on 2012-04-17 -
Apport-retracing-service never retraced bug #907769
Posted on 2011-12-28 -
How do I give apport "change everything" rights after revoking them
Posted on 2009-05-07 -
Apport Update 0.108.2 locks up during update
Posted on 2008-05-27 -
using apport when program does not run properly but does not crash either
Posted on 2007-08-27
