Apport crash detection/reporting

Registered 2006-07-27 by Martin Pitt

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:

trunk series 

lp:apport 
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Programming Languages:
Python
Licences:
GNU GPL v2

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Latest version is 2.16.2
released on 2015-03-02

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