Editing Test Day:2009-02-26 Crash Catcher

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| Thu February 26, 2009 || From ''12:00'' to ''20:00'' UTC (7am -> 3pm ET) || [irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa #fedora-qa])
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== What to test? ==

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on:

* [[Features/CrashCatcher]]

== Who's available ==

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
* Development - [[User:zprikryl| Zdenek Prikryl]] [[User:jmoskovc| Jiri Moskovcak]]
* Quality Assurance - [[User:koca | Martin Koci]], [[User:rbiba | Radek Biba]], [[User:jlaska | James Laska]], [[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]]

== Prerequisite for Test Day ==

* [[Releases/Rawhide|Rawhide]] or F10 fully updated (some tips below). Remember, Rawhide is an unsupported development branch: use an installation you don't mind getting broken
* Selinux enabled. If you need to run in permissive mode please file a [https://bugzilla.redhat.com bug] against selinux

{{admon/warning|no animals will be hurt during testing}}

== How to test? ==

=== '''Update your machine to latest Rawhide or F10''' ===

See the instructions on the [[Releases/Rawhide|Rawhide]] page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide.

=== '''Installation''' ===

# A yum repo is available to provide easy access to koji builds for [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1213313 F11] and [http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1213321 F10].  Run the following command to create the repo config file for crash-catcher:
<pre>
# cat <<EOF>>/etc/yum.repos.d/crash-catcher.repo
[crash-catcher]
name=crash-catcher
baseurl=http://jlaska.fedorapeople.org/repos/crash-catcher/\$releasever/\$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
EOF
</pre>
# Next, install the crash-catcher packages: <pre># yum install crash-catcher\*</pre>
# Disable bug-buddy: add a line <pre>GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=1</pre> to ~/.bashrc
# Then restart the computer to launch the daemon and load the necessary dbus configuration files
# Check if the daemon is really running, if not for some reason, run ''crash-catcher''
# Run ''cc-applet'' (as an ordinary user)

=== Configuration ===
after installation some default settings are stored in /etc/crash-catcher/*
configuration is written on single line "key = value {, value}"
* main config file is /etc/crash-catcher/crash-catcher.conf
   * OpenGPGPublicKeys list of GPG keys
   * EnableOpenGPG, check if a package is signed with one of keys
   * BlackList blacklisted backages
   * EnabledPlugins a list of enabled plugis. There should to be at least one language/application plugin and database plugin
   * Database denotes database plugin, there has to be one database plugin! (crash-catcher-plugin-sqlite3)
   * every language/application plugin can have several reporter plugins. If you want to report something, then it has to have at least one :-)
* Plugins conf files are in /etc/crash-catcher/plugins/*
   * description of options is in these files.
* known working config file /etc/crash-catcher/crash-catcher.conf
    # test conf file. it will be generated in the future
    # Enable GPG check
    EnableOpenGPG = no
    # GPG keys
    OpenGPGPublicKeys = /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
    # blacklisted packages
    BlackList = bash, bind, apache2
    # enabled plugins
    EnabledPlugins = SQLite3, CCpp, Mailx, Logger
    # selected DB plugin
    Database = SQLite3
    # reporters association
    CCpp = Mailx, Logger

=== Known issues ===
Consult list of [https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/report/1 active tickets] before reporting an issue.  The most common issues are listed below:
* '''Report multiple crashes''' - if you want to report same crash twice, you have to remove CC's DB (default path /var/cache/crash-catcher/crash-catcher-db) and make a crash again
* '''dbus timeout''' - if reporting causes an installation of many debuginfos, then a dbus timeout may occur. In that case, try to report crash again after debuginfos are installed.
* '''crash-catcher daemon crash''' - if crash-catcher daemon unexpectedly crashs, then look for .lock files in /var/cache/crash-catcher/ and delete them. They may cause a deadlock.
* '''Nothing happened?''' - if it seems to do nothing, try to disable PGP checking and restart daemon
* '''Graphical warnings''' - gui writes some gtk warnings
* '''Report editing''' - report editing from gui doesn't work 
* '''rpm %requires''' - it needs rpm >= 4.6.0-1 (rc3 segfaults)

=== Test ===

Available tests include:
* [[QA:Testcase_crashcatcher]] - default crash report
* [[QA:Testcase_crashcatcher_Logger]] - Logger plugin
* [[QA:Testcase_crashcatcher_Mailx]] - Mailx plugin

=== Results ===

If you find any bug (i.e. the test case does not complete as expected, or you encounter some buggy behaviour while carrying it out), then [https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/newticket file a ticket] via the [https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher crash-catcher Trac system].  Design discussion can also take place on the [https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/crash-catcher crash-catcher mailing list].

Please record what applications you test with crash-catcher and their results in the table below.

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! User
! Smolt Profile
! Application Tested
! Bug(s)
! Comment(s)
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| <!-- [[User:FasName]] -->
| <!-- Smolt profile (optional) --> 
| <!-- Application Tested -->
| <!-- [[rhbug:BUGID]] -->
| <!-- Comments -->
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| [[User:jlaska|James Laska]]
| [http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_606a8b52-d28b-41c7-aee2-f4994df2911e HW]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | Package Install
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/1
| Can't install the packages (bad %requires)
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| [[User:koca|Martin Koci]]
| [http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_b4d40bce-52a4-467e-87bd-ad1094fab20e HW]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | Vim - Deadlock while creating the Lock
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/4
| Can't catch the segmentation fault of the vim
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| [[User:koca|Martin Koci]]
| [http://www.smolts.org/show?uuid=pub_b4d40bce-52a4-467e-87bd-ad1094fab20e HW]
| | All
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/10
| SELinux is preventing mailx (sendmail_t) "read" to ./binary_data1 (var_t).
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| [[User:rbiba|Radek Biba]]
| [-]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | The security issue
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/5
| The temporary file /tmp/CCDB is a potentially security hole
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| [[User:rbiba|Radek Biba]]
| [-]
|  | crash-catcher
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/17
| The "Cancel" button works as the "Apply" button :)
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| [[User:rbiba|Radek Biba]]
| [-]
|  | crash-catcher
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/22
| Wrong recognition of the content of the reported email
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| [[User:rbiba|Radek Biba]]
| [-]
|  | crash-catcher
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/23
| [RFE] default select the last package dump in the GUI list
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| [[User:michich|Michal Schmidt]]
| [-]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | mc
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/6
| "Unable to get report! Debuginfo missing?"
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| [[User:psklenar|Petr Sklenar]]
| [http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_527e6a5b-d71d-41f7-93b3-6b3e06d66c09 HW]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | all
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/15
| "crash-catcher-5 dead but subsys locked"
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| [[User:psklenar|Petr Sklenar]]
| [http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_527e6a5b-d71d-41f7-93b3-6b3e06d66c09 HW]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | apps with suid=0
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/25
| "apps run under root is not reported"
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| [[User:dkovalsk|David Kovalsky]]
| [http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_52b0be34-8d44-4435-98d2-32a1953f6f7e HW]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | Package install
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/20
| cc-applet doesn't start
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| [[User:jscotka|Jan Scotka]]
| [-]
| style="color:white; background:red;" | cc-applet, HWproblem?
| https://fedorahosted.org/crash-catcher/ticket/26
| cc-applet doesn't start, and cc waiting for lock
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