974649 - Add environment variable for crash auto-submission (without the crash reporter open)

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

It would be great if we could add another environment variable to allow the auto-submission of crash reports to soccorro. This request is made for various automation frameworks, because none of us can handle the crash reporter. It doesn't close itself, and for really high-frequent crashes affected nodes can have tons of those windows open.

A workaround for now is to set MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_DISABLE=1 and to process the crash via the minidump_stackwalk binary. But it would be much easier for us if that could be automatically done if requested.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The above would be really important for beta and release builds because of the lack of any crashreporter-symbols on the FTP server. For Aurora and Nightly builds it has been requested via bug 973901.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Mass-removing myself from cc; search for 12b9dfe4-ece3-40dc-8d23-60e179f64ac1 or any reasonable part thereof, to mass-delete these notifications (and sorry!)