diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 78bb4caea..3386a993d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ env:
 before_install:
     - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux ]; then sudo apt-get update -qq; fi
     - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux ]; then sudo apt-get install -qq bison comerr-dev flex libcap-ng-dev libdb-dev libedit-dev libjson-perl libldap2-dev libncurses5-dev libperl4-corelibs-perl libsqlite3-dev libkeyutils-dev pkg-config python ss-dev texinfo unzip netbase keyutils; fi
-    - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux ]; then sudo apt-get install -qq ldap-utils gdb; fi
+    - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux ]; then sudo apt-get install -qq ldap-utils gdb apport; fi
     - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux ]; then sudo apt-get install -qq libmicrohttpd-dev; fi
     - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux -a -n "$COVERAGE" ]; then sudo apt-get install -qq jq; fi
     - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = osx ]; then brew update; fi
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ after_script:
 
 after_failure:
     - find . -name test-suite.log -print0 | xargs -0 cat
-    - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux ]; then echo "thread apply all bt" > x; find . -name core.\* -print | while read gdb; do gdb -batch -x x `file "$core"|sed -e "s/^[^']*'//" -e "s/[ '].*$//"` "$core"; done; fi
+    - if [ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME = linux ]; then echo "thread apply all bt" > x; find . -name core -print | while read core; do gdb -batch -x x `file "$core"|sed -e "s/^[^']*'//" -e "s/[ '].*$//"` "$core"; done; fi
 
 compiler:
     - clang