[Avocado-devel] RFC: ABRT integration

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:21 AM Jakub Filak <jfilak at redhat.com> wrote:

> Avocado developers,
>
>
> I came across an Avocado trello card requesting integration with
> systemd-coredumpctl. As a developer working on Automatic Bug Reporting Tool
> (ABRT) I got interested in it. I contacted Lukas Doktor with a question of
> what purpose the integration should be and with an offer to engage ABRT
> too.
> After short chat he asked me to send an RFC to this mailing list. So here
> you are Lukas.
>
>

Thank you very much for this POC. Having avocado and ABRT integrated will
help quite a lot in Fedora and RHEL.


> Let me first briefly introduce ABRT. Despite its name ABRT is more about
> detecting software (and hardware) problems and the reporting is just a one
> step in the whole processes of handling a problem. Currently ABRT is
> capable
> of detecting core files, uncaught Python exceptions, uncaught Ruby
> exceptions, uncaught Java exceptions, Kernel oopses (including those stored
> in pstore), Kernel vmcores and Machine Check Exceptions. ABRT provides
> several ways accessing detect problems which includes command line tools
> (abrt), GUI tools (gnome-abrt), Python API, C API and D-Bus interface. If
> interested, you can find more about ABRT at:
> http://abrt.readthedocs.io/
>
>
> I propose to enhance Avocado to become aware of ABRT and include detected
> problems in test results. Here is my initial proof-of-concept commit:
>
> https://github.com/jfilak/avocado/commit/e3258706bdfffb8ddddb2f1bc51328af2958617d
>
>
> Some technical details:
> - the implementation will capture only problems of a current user
> - a proper configuration of PolicyKit can allow any user to read all system
>   problems
> - there can be several simultaneous connections to ABRT D-Bus connection
>
>
> Please have a look at my patch and let me know if ABRT integration is
> something you are interested in.
>

We're interested in, you got me at the first sentence of your e-mail :)


>
> Should you have any question, please contact me or any ABRT developer on
> crash-catcher at lists.fedorahosted.org or on #abrt.
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Jakub
>
>
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