apport stopped working

Same problem here on AMD64 and i386 with Gutsy. Tried on two different machines that were installed with the Gutsy Tribe 5 Live CD.

update-notifier is running and apport is enabled in /etc/default/apport.

/var/crash is not empty, and apport-cli works if started manually. However starting apport-gtk does not work.

I've added several duplicates to this bug. It looks as if this is the earliest of the bunch.

The issue is caused by a change in update-notifier 0.60 where the default setting of gconf's

apps/update-notifier/show_apport_crashes

was changed to false for the Release Candidate but not changed back to true for
release 0.61.

To correct the setting:

$ gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/update-notifier/show_apport_crashes true

update-notifier (0.62) gutsy; urgency=low

  * data/update-notifier.schemas.in:
    - Re-enable apport (disabled in 0.60)

 -- TJ <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:30:00 +0000

Thanks for finding and fixing this bug!
Please create a patch for hardy (development) first, then another one for gutsy-proposed (instead of gutsy).
Also, please look at your debdiff: there appear to be two ".project" files been added, which looks like a mistake.
You should also reference the bug closed by this upload in the changelog, like "LP: #137406".
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for the gutsy-proposed debdiff.

I found mention of the policy behind disabling apport reporting from update-notifier today. It seems it is a deliberate decision because data-center infrastructure isn't ready to deal usefully with the expected volume of apport attachments.

See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-April/023526.html

I'm therefore withdrawing the patch but those that want to manually report crashes can do:

$ /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk

or if you want to enable the automatic handling:

$ gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/update-notifier/show_apport_crashes true