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
       question/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 reported problem
       you have submitted. This is useful if the report  was  not  originally  filed  through  Apport,  and  the
       developers ask you to attach information from your system.

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 situation
              before  filing  a bug report can define this in their ~/.bashrc or temporarily on the command line
              when calling apport-bug.

FILES

       apport crash files are written in to /var/crash by default, named uniquely per binary name and  user  id.
       They are not deleted after being sent to the bug tracker (but from cron when they get older than 7 days).
       You can extract the core file (if any) and other information using apport-unpack.

SEE ALSO

       apport-cli(1), apport-unpack(1)

AUTHOR

       apport and the accompanying tools are developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>.