apport-bug(1) apport-bug(1) NAME apport-bug, apport-collect - file a bug report using Apport, or update an existing report SYNOPSIS apport-bug apport-bug symptom | pid | package | program path | .apport/.crash file apport-collect report-number DESCRIPTION apport-bug reports problems to your distribution's bug tracking system, using Apport to collect a lot of local information about your system to help the developers to fix the problem and avoid unnecessary ques- tion/answer turnarounds. You should always start with running apport-bug without arguments, which will present a list of known symptoms. This will generate the most useful bug reports. If there is no matching symptom, you need to determine the affected program or package yourself. You can provide a package name or program name to apport-bug, e. g.: apport-bug firefox apport-bug /usr/bin/unzip In order to add more information to the bug report that could help the developers to fix the problem, you can also specify a process ID instead: $ pidof gnome-terminal 5139 $ apport-bug 5139 As a special case, to report a bug against the Linux kernel, you do not need to use the full package name (such as linux- image-2.6.28-4-generic); you can just use apport-bug linux to report a bug against the currently running kernel. Finally, you can use this program to report a previously stored crash or bug report: apport-bug /var/crash/_bin_bash.1000.crash apport-bug /tmp/apport.firefox.332G9t.apport Bug reports can be written to a file by using the --save option or by using apport-cli. apport-bug detects whether KDE or Gnome is running and calls apport-gtk or apport-kde accordingly. If neither is available, or the session does not run under X11, it calls apport-cli for a command-line client. UPDATING EXISTING REPORTS apport-collect collects the same information as apport-bug, but adds it to an already existing problem report. This is useful if the report was not originally filed through Apport, or by someone else, and the devel- opers ask you for attaching information from your system as well. OPTIONS Please see the apport-cli(1) manpage for possible options. ENVIRONMENT APPORT_IGNORE_OBSOLETE_PACKAGES Apport refuses to create bug reports if the package or any dependency is not current. If this environment variable is set, this check is waived. Experts who will thoroughly check the sit- uation before filing a bug report can define this in their ~/.bashrc or temporarily when calling the apport frontend (-cli, -gtk, or -kde). APPORT_STAGING When reporting bugs to Launchpad (default in Ubuntu), use stag- ing.launchpad.net instead of the real production instance. You should use this when testing new hooks or new functionality, to avoid sending uninteresting bug mail to developers. SEE ALSO apport-cli(1) AUTHOR apport and the accompanying tools are developed by Martin Pitt <mar- tin.pitt@ubuntu.com>. Martin Pitt September 08, 2009 apport-bug(1)