User:Sardisson/Camino Crash Reporter

Issues found in pre-release Google Breakpad client in Camino

• Client sometimes won't appear after a crash (try testcase in this bug, URL/comment 0 in this bug) - Bug 490670
  • So far does seem to write a dump in spite of not appearing
  • cl has also reproduced this on PPC
  • smorgan can repro reliably on first crash after reboot
• Client often "just vanishes" after appearing (while filling out info, switching apps to get info, etc.) - Bug 488727
• Client has no indication of sending/success (did my report get sent?), made worse by the random vanishing)
  • Apple and Mozilla both display progress spinners while sending and don't simply vanish
• Clicking on the Dock icon when the app is not frontmost doesn't focus the reporter window - issue 312
• Client doesn't fire with Rosetta?
• Need about:crashes / some easy, visible way to find sent report ID(s) - Bug 488949
• Make sure the following are reported, once Socorro support is in:
  • URL - Bug 490657
  • user comments
    • with UTF-8 support
    • text field should accept no more characters than will be stored
  • ObjC exception info
  • Time since the last crash
  • Console scraping - Bug 488618
• Loaded libraries versions are incorrect
  • All have a 0. prepended to the actual or incorrect version, e.g. AppKit 0.949.43.0 instead of 949.43 (CFBundleVersion)
  • Binaries with otherwise-correct versions are setting DYLIB_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION and DYLIB_CURRENT_VERSION; see, e.g., Sparkle
  • Some have blatantly incorrect versions, e.g.
    • Flash 0.0.0.0 instead of 1.0.4f872 (CFBundleVersion; alas, the useful version number is CFBundleShortVersionString, 10.0.22.87)
    • Growl 0.1.0.0 instead of 1.1.4 (CFBundleVersion)
    • SharedMenusCocoa 0.1.0.0 instead of 0.0.3 (CFBundleVersion)
    • Camino [blank] instead of 2009.04.25 (CFBundleVersion)
  • Filed issue 321 to cover the blank/0.0.0.0 case
• Breakpad issue 309 (can't copy/paste)
• Big gap between "title" and "explanatory text"
• AppName menu/Hide menuitem/Dock label needs to be other than "crash_report_sender" - Bug 488861
  • issue 313 filed to make this less hacky
  • Need a way to resend a crash report in case of failure - Bug 515861

OS Symbols

See QA:Crash Reporting and Analysis#OS Symbols for the links to OS symbol manifests that used to be on this page.

Which ones to get?

• Need to get symbols for OS libraries, frameworks, and plug-ins (which ones?)
  • libobjc.A.dylib
  • libSystem.B.dylib
  • AddressBook.framework
  • AppKit.framework
  • ApplicationServices
    • ATS
    • ColorSync
    • CoreGraphics
      • libRIP.A.dylib
    • HIServices
  • QD
  • Carbon.framework
    • HIToolbox
  • Cocoa.framework
  • CoreAudio
  • CoreFoundation.framework
  • CoreServices
    • AE
    • CFNetwork
    • CarbonCore
    • LaunchServices
  • Foundation.framework
  • IOKit.framework
  • JavaVM.framework
    • libclient.dylib
  • PreferencePanes.framework
  • QuartzCore
  • QuickTime.framework
  • OpenGL.framework
    • libGLProgrammability.dylib
  • Security.framework
  • SystemConfiguration.framework
  • DesktopServicesPriv
  • QuickTimeComponents (/S/L/QT/QTcomponents.component)

• Whereami
  • JavaPluginCocoa
  • Flash Player
  • vImage (is this part of the OS?)
  • input methods (?)