Bug 848786

Summary:	RFE: Environment Variable to Ignore Crashes
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Cape <jamescape777>
Component:	abrt	Assignee:	abrt <abrt-devel-list>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	high
Version:	rawhide	CC:	abrt-devel-list, dvlasenk, iprikryl, jfilak, jmoskovc, kklic, mmilata, mtoman
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Description James Cape 2012-08-16 12:11:10 UTC

Description of problem:

Ordinarily, a user will want to get a problem report when a packaged application crashes. However, if I'm a developer working on a loadable module for a packaged application (e.g. gedit, GTK, python, etc.), then I don't want ABRT to pick up those crashes, because it stuffs ABRT with a bunch of reports that will never go upstream (which makes ABRT less useful) and is kind of annoying (since it's a flurry of "XYZ crashed" notifications on the desktop)

So, I'd like to be able to tell ABRT to ignore a particular execution of an application, even if the crash is in a packaged app that I'd want to see crash reports on otherwise.

After discussions with jmoskovc on #fedora, I'd like to propose making these environment variables standard:

ABRT_IGNORE_ALL=1
ABRT_IGNORE_PYTHON=1
ABRT_IGNORE_CCPP=1

So, adding a events.d file which deletes events with those environment vars set:

---
# Ignore any crashes when the app was run w/ ABRT_IGNORE_ALL=1 in its
# environment
EVENT=post-create environ~="ABRT_IGNORE_ALL=1"
	rm .

# Ignore C/C++-based crashes with ABRT_IGNORE_CCPP
EVENT=post-create analyzer=CCpp environ~="ABRT_IGNORE_CCPP=1"
	rm .

# And ignore Python crashes with ABRT_IGNORE_PYTHON
EVENT=post-create analyzer=Python environ~="ABRT_IGNORE_PYTHON=1"
	rm .
---

Comment 1 Jiri Moskovcak 2012-09-18 10:59:06 UTC

I propose to add even:

ABRT_IGNORE=<some regexp>

Comment 2 James Cape 2012-09-18 13:22:17 UTC

Sounds good to me ( my guys will just do =.* :-) ).

Is that stuff accessible from inside the config file?

Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2012-10-05 11:57:44 UTC

Yes, it can be implemented in .config files, no need to change C code.

Fixed in git:

commit 86c6d0de1dde119115930fec72232aff628bc9f8
Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux>
Date:   Fri Oct 5 13:55:55 2012 +0200

    Make it possible for developer to disable crash processing for specific apps

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-10-11 14:01:24 UTC

abrt-2.0.15-1.fc17,libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17,btparser-0.20-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.15-1.fc17,libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17,btparser-0.20-1.fc17

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-10-12 02:55:08 UTC

Package abrt-2.0.15-1.fc17, libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17, btparser-0.20-1.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.0.15-1.fc17 libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17 btparser-0.20-1.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-15968/abrt-2.0.15-1.fc17,libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17,btparser-0.20-1.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-10-18 00:33:29 UTC

Package abrt-2.0.16-1.fc17, libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17, btparser-0.20-1.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.0.16-1.fc17 libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17 btparser-0.20-1.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-15968/abrt-2.0.16-1.fc17,libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17,btparser-0.20-1.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-12-20 15:44:49 UTC

abrt-2.0.16-1.fc17, libreport-2.0.16-1.fc17, btparser-0.20-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.