Public bug reported:
Since I think 12.10, I started getting at least 3-4 of these pop-ups
daily from various programs (nautilus, rhythmbox, spotify, apport
itself...) notifying me that something has crashed and asking me if I
want to report the bug. I find any such GUI-level interaction very
aggressive and should only happen in extreme cases, not on a daily
basis.
What is the reasoning behind this behavior and is it really necessary?
Couldn't we have a global system-level question once the first crash
appears or when the user first logs in, asking if the user wants to help
developers by reporting bugs in the background ("sending random
statistics" as other OS-es call this) and then just silently report them
in the future? (and I don't mean per-application-per-version silencing
as is currently available - this still leaves too much manual work).
The current behavior lead me to a situation where I completely turned
off bug reporting (same as the gentleman who wrote this blog post did
[1] and probably many others as well) as there was no better option to
silence it.
[1]: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/ubuntu-12-04-has-experienced-an-
internal-error-message/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: apport 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 16 23:23:52 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-20 (86 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2013-04-16T23:13:39.477907
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal third-party-packages
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