[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1746: IOError and verbose exceptions trigger Ubuntu crash reporter

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#1746: IOError and verbose exceptions trigger Ubuntu crash reporter
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  ChosenOne
  ChosenOne              |     Status:  new
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:  soon
     Priority:  major    |    Version:  1.9.1
    Component:  code-    |   Keywords:  cli ubuntu apport usability error
  frontend-cli           |  review-needed test-needed
   Resolution:           |
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Comment (by warner):

 I'm +1 for this for CLI commands like "tahoe put" and friends (although
 maybe we should just rewrite those commands to never report gateway
 failures or bad arguments as exceptions, always emitting a nicer error
 message).

 I'm less confident about doing this for "tahoe start", if only for the
 case where we eventually have a double-clickable "launch tahoe" icon, and
 if the only way that an exception during startup can be noticed is by a
 GUI apport hook that notices the exception and reports it in a dialog
 (monolog) box.

 I guess at a more fundamental level, Ubuntu (via apport) is telling us
 that exceptions are not an acceptable way to deliver "user made a mistake"
 error messages to users, which I can't entirely disagree with (although
 it's still pretty annoying).

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Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1746#comment:7>
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