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Sending a signature to the crash DB before the full core dump

2011-11-03 16:15..17:00 in Bonaire 8

Investigate whether we can work around the problems of not being able to retrace core dumps on the local system and ASLR making generating an accurate retrace without function names difficult. Being able to create a stack trace with just addresses would allow us to submit that small chunk of data to the crash database before sending the full data set. The crash database could then decide if this crash already exists or if it needs the full core dump so that it can create a new crash bucket with that retraced.


Google's Breakpad is able to do this through Microsoft's Minidump format. We may be able to mimic this behavior in apport without having to link every application to Breakpad.