Open Bug 1477057 Opened 6 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Repurpose about:crashes in ASAN builds to link to the ASAN crash reports

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(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, enhancement)

enhancement

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(Reporter: jan, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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(Keywords: nightly-community)

I tried to reproduce bug 1474885 comment 1 again. No crash reporter was shown, but an asan report was sent. about:crashes is an "Invalid URL". It would be nice if I could additionally produce normal crash reports for Socorro. Thank you.
Unfortunately ASan and the Socorro crash reporter are inherently incompatible, which is why the regular crash reporter is completely disabled in ASan builds. All reporting logic is handled by a separate system addon in ASan builds. This is unlikely to change in the future, but we might be able to repurpose about:crashes in these builds to show all submitted ASan crash reports (they exist as files in the profile directory). Unfortunately I can't work on this right now.
This sounds to me like an enhancement to the ASAN builds: let's change the title to reflect that, while moving this to Firefox build system.
Severity: normal → enhancement
OS: Linux → All
Product: Firefox → Firefox Build System
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Summary: asan-nightly-project: about:crashes is an "Invalid URL" → Repurpose about:crashes in ASAN builds to link to the ASAN crash reports
Keywords: in-triage
Definitely not a build system issue. We'll stick it in the Crash Reporting component, but I'm not sure that sharing any code with the existing about:crashes page makes sense. You might as well just implement a new page and ship it in ASAN builds exposed as about:crashes.
Component: General → Crash Reporting
Keywords: in-triage
Product: Firefox Build System → Toolkit
Severity: normal → S3
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