Comment 13 for bug 1332925

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:10:31AM -0000, Alan Pope ㋛ wrote:
> No. It's already ticked.
>
> I just visited that part of system settings on one of my phones and see
> the tick box is ticked. Now the file has arrived.
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 24 09:04 /var/lib/apport/autoreport
>
> Note the time stamp is just now, confirming it's created by visiting
> that page in system settings.
>
> This seems flawed. I am happy to upload my crash dumps, and given it is
> ticked when I visit that dialog, I assumed it's switched on by default,
> which from Barry's comment, it seems it's not.

That is correct reporting of crashes is not on by default.

> I (and other devs) flash our phones a *lot*, sometimes multiple times a
> day. I (and others) will almost certainly forget to visit this pane to
> switch crash reporting on. It will also be problematic for devices which
> are auto-testing in the lab.

Do you go through the setup wizard each time? There is a merge
proposal[1] for ubuntu system settings that will ask about reporting
crashes during the initial setup of the phone.

[1]
https://code.launchpad.net/~cimi/ubuntu-system-settings/wizard.privacy/+merge/213124

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Brian Murray