Enabling crash report

By default automatic crash reporting is disabled. If you want to enable crash reporting

$ sudo vi /etc/default/apport

You will see the following in the file

# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0

Change the last line 0 to 1.

enabled=1

Next time when an application crashes you will have a dialog box opened asking if you want a crash report to be submitted.

Few other options to enable crash reporting

• If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
• If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.