Bug 756840

Summary: Consider adding a rule to save smolt profile on process crash (if smolt is installed)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk>
Component: smoltAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Denys Vlasenko 2011-11-24 19:45:20 UTC
smolt profile is a bit of information potentially useful in determining why some program is crashing.

However, it can only be collected if smolt is installed.

We (abrt/libreport team) currently do this in a somewhat ugly way in /etc/libreport/events.d/smolt_event.conf file:


EVENT=collect_Smolt
        which smoltSendProfile >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
            echo "Smolt package not installed, can't save profile"
            exit 0
        }
        smoltSendProfile -p >smolt_data 2>&1 || exit $?
        echo "Smolt profile successfully saved"


Basically, it is "if smoltSendProfile is installed, then run it". This is stupid: the Fedora machine KNOWS (via rpm database) when smolt is installed.

IOW: the more elegand way is to install this file as part of smolt, not as part of libreport.

For now we maintain this file as a part of libreport
packages, but we feel this mechanism has proved to be working well and it is
time to move it to the smolt package.


If you want to adopt this, make it so that your package(s) install your own
/etc/libreport/events.d/smolt_event.conf.

After you did this, ping us and we will remove our file.

In order to make sure /etc/libreport/events.d/ directory has a proper package
ownership, we are going to create libreport-fs package which creates it. You
can ensure the directory is created by making your package dependent on
libreport-fs.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2011-11-25 14:20:04 UTC
Just a note: the package which creates /etc/libreport/events.d/ will be called
libreport-filesystem. It is already in libreport git, and will be in Fedora
with next release (a week or two).

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 18:01:52 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

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