apport-bug
File bug reports with automatic system diagnostics.
TLDR
Report a bug about the whole system
SYNOPSIS
apport-bug [symptom|PID|package|program path|crash file]
apport-collect report-number
DESCRIPTION
apport-bug reports problems to your distribution's bug tracking system, using Apport to collect local system information that helps developers diagnose and fix issues more efficiently.
The recommended approach is to run the command without arguments to see a list of known symptoms and select the most relevant one. This generates the most useful bug reports.
The tool automatically detects the desktop environment and launches apport-gtk or apport-kde accordingly. If neither is available, or the session does not run under X11, it falls back to apport-cli for command-line interaction.
CAVEATS
Only available on Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions. Requires a configured Launchpad account to submit bug reports. Crash files in /var/crash/ are automatically removed after approximately 7 days.
HISTORY
Apport was developed by Canonical for Ubuntu, first introduced around 2006 as an automated crash reporting system. It evolved to include apport-bug as a user-facing tool for manually filing bug reports with automatically collected system diagnostics.
SEE ALSO
apport-cli(1), apport-unpack(1), ubuntu-bug(1)