Does OSTW support GNOME Abrt, or an equivalent crash report wizard?

On Fedora, I can report crashes using the gnome-abrt GUI directly to Bugzilla with all my environment information and GDB traces attached for me: [1]

It saves me an inordinate amount of time formatting and acquiring debugging information. Does this, or an equivalent, exist on any openSUSE OSes?

I ask because I’ve experienced a few crashes during my usage of OSTW, and it’s the difference between me submitting a crash report for every crash that GDB can produce a useful trace for, versus me nearly never bothering, simply because I cannot find the time to.


  1. bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2333966#c0 ↩︎

Who is OSTW and why should I know him or her?

@rokejulianlockhart not that I’m aware of, it hasn’t been touched in 4 years… probably the reason… I’ve not had to use gdb in a long time, only fun I had late last year was Mesa and Intel ARC issues which are all resolved for me…

@hcvv, hehe. tumbleweed.

@malcolmlewis, the last commit was on 2025-04-08:

However, it’s merely an example to compare to. I’ve always been baffled by Tumblweed’s apparent lack of a Sentry-equivalent and bug report wizard, because it means that whilst my drkonqi-coredump-gui list fills, your Bugzilla does not.

@rokejulianlockhart The tools for openSUSE are there (always have been) supportutils and supportconfig?

Package gnome-abrt up and submit?

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@malcolmlewis, thanks! That looks like at least an improvement: [1]

Gathers system troubleshooting information. Organizes system information to reduce problem resolution time. Serves as a training tool by showing all commands and files used to gather system information. Creates a tarball that can be attached to a Novell service request and/or sent to a Novell Technical Services engineer.

However, supportconfig doesn’t appear to exist in the repositories, and supportutils doesn’t appear to add supportconfig to $PATH.

By the way, I forgot to mention that DrKonqi does generally provide this for KDE software, albeit even that at best inconsistently:


Shall do, if ever I’ve the time. It’s 50% of the way there:


  1. en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Supportutils&oldid=120906#supportconfig ↩︎

It appears to require superuser elevation.

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