Bug 986876

I can't even check the "don't ask me again" box when it asks if it's OK to use the retrace server, and then click 'No'. If I check the box, the only button that's still usable is the 'Yes' button!

Hello!

The external retrace server can be easily removed from the reporting process by modification of ABRT configuration files but it is not possible to prevent users from accessing coredumps stored in their problem directories.

1.) replace analyze_CCpp event by analyze_LocalGDB in report-gui and report-cli events definition:
$ sed 's/-e analyze_CCpp/-e analyze_LocalGDB/' -i /etc/libreport/events.d/ccpp_event.conf

2.) replace analyze_CCPP event by analyze_LocalDGB in Fedora workflow:
$ sed 's/analyze_CCpp/analyze_LocalGDB/' -i /etc/libreport/workflows/workflow_Fedora.xml



In the default configuration coredumps can be attached to bugzilla but only on user request. The configuration can be tweaked to prevent users from attaching coredumps to bugzilla during the standard reporting process.

1.) remove coredump from the list of attachable items
$ sed 's/<exclude-items-by-default>coredump,/<exclude-items-by-default>/' -i /etc/libreport/events/report_Bugzilla.xml

2.) add coredump to the list of forbidden items
$ sed 's/<exclude-items-always\/>/<exclude-items-always>coredump<\/exclude-items-always>/' -i /etc/libreport/events/report_Bugzilla.xml



There is no possibility to prevent users from enabling the automatic bug reporting. In the default configuration the automatic bug reporting sends a micro-report to ABRT server. The micro-report is a simplified backtrace without any private and security sensitive data. Therefore, no one has ever expected that someone will consider it problematic.

You can set AutoreportingEvent option in /etc/abrt/abrt.conf to non-existing event (or better to a dummy event which does nothing) to make the automatic bug reporting functionless but the user can override this configuration in his configuration file.



The 'No' response must not be saved because it would completely disable the bug reporting.

That's really useful information; thank you. I'm sure I'll be able to persuade the IT Security folks to allow me to leave abrt enabled, with this.

It's OK for users to access coredumps on their own machines; we just didn't want them getting *uploaded* to non-$COMPANY machines.

I'm still a little confused about why the 'no' response about using the *retrace* server can't be saved. If I press 'no', it downloads debuginfo packages and generates the backtrace locally. Couldn't it just do that every time?

But that isn't important since you seem to have told me how to remove the external retrace server, so the question doesn't even get *asked*. That's the equivalent of saving the 'no' answer, unless I'm misunderstanding something.

Do'h, I though that we've fixed this flaw but we've decided to not spend time fixing this problem (~1 day of coding, X new bugs, complex code) because it's possible to remove the retrace server analysis from the reporting process in the configuration. This is a relic of the old implementation in which the 'No' response stopped reporting of the crash because there was no fallback to the local analysis.

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This upstream commits fixes the issue:
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/40f8bf9c43d723ce9b0534d35908e3fbe496b4df
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/6a002efafad455a0074de843499e60d6986ba092

https://github.com/abrt/libreport/commit/59a48e866d7bb5727a0a1258b41ebda977224b81
https://github.com/abrt/libreport/commit/c319a2052c19b2dda20049d6aba3417821d5e4d0
https://github.com/abrt/libreport/commit/bc20571d39cbea1b6ebf39a018b2fd8b0351afda

gnome-abrt-1.0.0-2.fc21, abrt-2.3.0-6.fc21, libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-abrt-1.0.0-2.fc21,abrt-2.3.0-6.fc21,libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21

Package gnome-abrt-1.0.0-2.fc21, abrt-2.3.0-6.fc21, libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gnome-abrt-1.0.0-2.fc21 abrt-2.3.0-6.fc21 libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-10193/gnome-abrt-1.0.0-2.fc21,abrt-2.3.0-6.fc21,libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Package gnome-abrt-1.0.0-3.fc21, abrt-2.3.0-7.fc21, libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gnome-abrt-1.0.0-3.fc21 abrt-2.3.0-7.fc21 libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-10193/gnome-abrt-1.0.0-3.fc21,abrt-2.3.0-7.fc21,libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

gnome-abrt-1.0.0-3.fc21, abrt-2.3.0-7.fc21, libreport-2.3.0-8.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

This bug is still not fixed in Fedora 22 with gnome-abrt 1.2.0-2, abrt-2.6.0-1 and libreport-2.6.0-1