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how to read and use crash reports?

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A small independent application is crashing on my system (Kubuntu 12.04). I want to manually review the info in the crash report and then email the relevant parts to the developer. The file is located in /var/crash/_usr_bin_appname.1000.crash however I am not sure which tool I need in order to read, edit and save the crash report in a form that I can email to the developer.

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answered 2 Years ago stantildlike · Accepted Answer

Here's the best solution I have found so far:

apt-get install apport-retrace

Then study the manual at either:

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/en/man1/apport-retrace.1.html

or

man apport-retrace

I came up with this command:

apport-retrace --confirm --gdb --sandbox system --verbose --cache /my/path/cache/apport-retrace --output /mypath/apport-retrace/appname.1000.crash /var/crash/_usr_bin_appname.1000.crash

Use your own paths (instead of /my/path) and the correct application name (instead of 'appname') in the command above. See the manual for variations on that command.