apport
allows to investigate crashes locally and to either start a gdb
session, get a backtrace or install debugging symbols in that local investigation. When choosing the latter a gnome-terminal
is displayed to monitor the progress of updating the apt
sources and installing the -dbg
packages. How can I keep that terminal window from disappearing if the apt-get
process finished or crashed?
The solution shouldn't require any interaction with the terminal at all after the installation has been started.
This is crucial for debugging failures of apport
itself. Currently the terminal disappears without any noticeable error and then an apport
dialog for the package which didn't finish to create the backtrace or for the crash of apport
itself (starting an infinite loop of apport
detecting its own crash) is opened.
Note: This in not about a specific issue that makes the gnome-terminal
opened by apport
disappear, i.e. I don't care if apt-get makes a segmentation fault or a dpkg subroutine returns != 0, ...
apport in gnome-terminal
and then it crashes ? or do you call it some other way ?apport
(gnome-terminal
,xterm
or KDEkonsole
)apport
itselfs opens agnome-terminal
which crashes/disappears.apport
should be unable to kill it, but might crash when it notices it failed to do so.