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Bug 1072874

Summary: Slightly misleading comment "Another user experienced a similar problem"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alois Mahdal <amahdal>
Component: libreportAssignee: Jan Beran <jberan>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: abrt-devel-list, dvlasenk, iprikryl, jberan, jfilak, mhabrnal, michal.toman, mmilata, rvokal
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Fixed In Version: libreport-2.6.4-1.fc23 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Alois Mahdal 2014-03-05 10:25:10 UTC
Description of problem:
When user reports crash via ABRT, and consequentially the same crash is detected and reported again, the comment added to the original bug has this form:

> Another user experienced a similar problem:
>
> [...description as entered in gnome-abrt...]

This can be misleading: it seems like if the commenter was literally speaking of some "another user", although in reality there is no reason to imply that.  (In fact I believe most of the time it's the same user who experiences the crash and has their name on this comment so there is no "another user".)


The confusion is even supported by the context:

    comm. 0 from Joe: "I just had this program crashed blah blah..."
    ...wall of attachments...
    comm. 12 from Joe: "Another user just had this program crashed
                        blah blah..."

It also applies if the other user is different:

    comm. 0 from Joe: "I just had this program crashed blah blah..."
    ...wall of attachments...
    comm. 12 from Bob: "Another user just had this program crashed
                        blah blah..."

One of many examples of such bug is bug 1071327.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt-2.1.12-2.fc20.x86_64


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a crash and report it to bugzilla
2. Have the same crash again and have ABRT add comment
3. Look at the bug, read tha comments


Actual results:
You are scratching your head


Expected results:
You should not be scratching your head


Additional info:
In fact I can't see how this sentence would be useful so I think that best and easiest way how to fix it would be removing it.

Comment 1 Alois Mahdal 2014-03-05 10:31:01 UTC
> In fact I can't see how this sentence would be useful so I think that best
> and easiest way how to fix it would be removing it.

After re-reading the example bug I reconsidered this: it is useful to make clear the comment is about a new instance of similar (or the same) problem.  So what about something like:

    "Similar problem has been detected:\n\n"

I'm sure you can make something up ... something nice, neutral and universal. :)

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2015-05-29 11:09:10 UTC
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Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:42:13 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

Comment 5 Jan Beran 2015-12-16 15:57:05 UTC
Upstream pull request: https://github.com/abrt/libreport/pull/399

Upstream pull request for testing part: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/1103

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-02-02 16:12:36 UTC
libreport-2.6.4-1.fc23 abrt-2.7.2-1.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-933459f83c

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-02-03 23:02:03 UTC
abrt-2.8.0-1.fc23, libreport-2.6.4-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-933459f83c

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-02-04 23:22:36 UTC
abrt-2.8.0-1.fc23, libreport-2.6.4-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.