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  1. Bug #324368
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 324368

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 324368] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in XisbRead()

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:50:15PM -0000, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:26:33PM -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > I wish we had kees' Xorg.0.log for comparison.
>
> This is one of the down-sides of the dup-detector, as it encourages people
> to not file a bug when one already exists for a given crash. I think it'd
> be better for it to finish filing the bug, but the dup it (to gain the
> backtraces and logs).

In this case, of course, you decided not to file the bug when I said that I
had already done so. :-)

The dupe detector does work as you describe. It sounds like maybe you're
referring to bugpatterns, which are generally only used to suppress invalid
reports or to block bugs which are getting reported too frequently.

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 - mdz