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"System program problem detected" should mention program

Bug #988010 reported by Adrian Bridgett on 2012-04-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #794757: Mysterious "System program problem detected" prompt. Edit Remove

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apport (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

(I'm not sure it's apport, it's a best guess - /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd is running)

When a program crashes I get notified (great) and I can choose to report/cancel the report (also great).

However I'd really like to know _which_ program crashed before making that decision and unfortunately the notify window doesn't say (and neither does the mouseover the notify icon).

These currently say:
"System program problem detected" and "Crash report detected" respectively.

It would be good to have the program name (and possibly package name as well in case it's not obvious and that helps).

Hmm. Oddly enough closing that (cancel) it now says:
"The application Gtkam Digital Camera Browser has closed unexpectedly" and helpfully has:
[(ticked)] Send an error report to help fix this problem
show details, leave closed, relaunch

which is spot on.

Running Xfce (upgraded to 12.04, not rebooted recently, but have logged out/in recently)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-24:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Aditya V (kroq-gar78) wrote on 2012-04-24:

To see the name of the program, click on "Show Details". It will then show the path of the crashed program.

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Adrian Bridgett (adrian-bridgett) wrote on 2012-04-24:

Thanks kroq-gar78 (whatever your name is!)

That second window is fine (since it said "Gtkam Digital Camera Browser"), it's the first one that could do with a small improvement - sorry that wasn't clear.

(I'm sufficiently lazy that even one click would be too much - i.e. clicking on "report bug" to find the name out I wouldn't find acceptable - you don't have email programs saying "new email" (well, I hope you don't) - they say who & subject)