2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org>: > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:13:53 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org>: >> > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >> >> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) >> >> >> >> If I want to get a list of all KDE crashes that happened in libGL.so*, >> >> how do I go about that? >> >> >> >> Regarding backtraces, as I said in my next email, it's not realistic >> >> to expect the user to do anything more than click OK, when an app >> >> crashed on him. So I think that the -dbg packages rather need to be >> >> used by the server. >> > >> > Server-side debug symbols implies uploading the core file to the server, >> > which may contain a variety of interesting information like user >> > passwords, credit card numbers, etc. Imagine if kwalletd crashed even. >> >> Why would it not be enough to just upload part of the stack? >> >> If crash reports had to contain a whole core dump, we sure would be >> able to send them, given that in Firefox's case that would be hundreds >> of MBs of data. > > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? > > Imagine one frame that didn't keep the frame pointer properly?
If the stack is damaged, then indeed I can't do anything; but that's not the case in a vast majority of crashes. Benoit > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org > Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks > PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: > E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 > > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<