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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-12-07 20:45:22
Message-ID: 201012072145.23114.thiago () kde ! org
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On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:13:53 Benoit Jacob wrote:
> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira <thiago@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?

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