The trivial fix is to fail gracefully if the user cannot read this log file. It should hardly prevent you from reporting bugs!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799240 Title: apport script crashes - IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/kern.log' Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: TEST CASE: 1. Create a user who is not part of the group 'adm' 2. Login as this user 3. In a terminal run the following command: $ ubuntu-bug evince Result: The following error is displayed: """ ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_evince.py crashed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 661, in add_hooks_info symb['add_info'](self) File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_evince.py", line 54, in add_info report['KernLog'] = recent_kernlog(sec_re) File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_evince.py", line 24, in recent_kernlog for line in open(file): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/kern.log' """ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: evince 3.0.2-0ubuntu2 [modified: usr/share/doc/evince/changelog.Debian.gz] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3 Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Jun 18 22:34:05 2011 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3 SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/799240/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
