[systemd-bugs] [Bug 82507] RFE: Collect Python backtraces

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82507

--- Comment #4 from Jakub Filak <filak.jakub at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek from comment #3)
> Yes, something like this. I'm experimenting with the systemd-coredump-python
> because this works without abrt running. So it has the same basic advantages
> and disadvantages that systemd-coredump has over abrt: does not require abrt
> to be running, works in early boot, only logs to the journal and does not
> provide any higher-level handling.
> 

ABRT is not running for fun - it deals with duplicates (you don't want to save
every coredump of a program crashing in a loop), it enforces disk consumption
quotas, it performs automatic actions, .... If ABRT hooks were just creating
records for detected problems, we wouldn't need ABRT running. 

> I think such a module might be integrated one of three ways:
> - an alternative to the abrt hook, to be used when abrt-addon-python3 is not
> installed
> - an alternative to the abrt hook, to be used until abrt becomes available
> - teaching abrt to read python backtraces from the journal
> 
> The last option is the most interesting I think, but it only makes sense if
> abrt gets the general ability to read coredump entries from the journal in
> general, also for actual coredumps.
> 
> The changes in #4526 are fairly generic, and should allow taking the same
> path for other languages (ruby, java, etc.). What d'ya think?

I would tighter integrate ABRT with systemd, if you had a plan how to deal with
floods of new problems (corefiles appearing every 1ms) and how to let ABRT
collect additional information about crashing processes. Moving
systemd-coredump from systemd's repository to its own repository would be
appreciated too.

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