This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
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apport (2.6.1-0ubuntu6) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
* Do not refer to the current release in the InstallationDate field
(LP: #1070400). We have the installed release version in the
InstallationMedia field.
apport (2.6.1-0ubuntu5) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
* Include the date that Ubuntu was installed with each report
(LP: #1070400).
-- Evan Dandrea <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:31:10 +0100
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1039220
Title:
don't report crashes for programs that don't match the file on disk
(like for kernel crashes)
Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “apport” source package in Precise:
In Progress
Status in “apport” source package in Quantal:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
Reporting of crashes against currently-installed versions of packages, which
this is not the version of package on disk, results in garbage data in the
errors.ubuntu.com graphs that make it impossible to know with certainty that a
given version of a package fixed a given crash. This severely hinders our
reliance on errors.ubuntu.com for SRU validation.
[TEST CASE]
1) install lptools
2) lp-grab-attachments 2039920 (should crash with a keyerror)
3) close the apport dialog regarding the application crashing (via the X in
the corner)
4) sudo vi $(which lp-grab-attachments)
5) modify copyright year or some comment
6) ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_usr_bin_lp-grab-attachments.*crash
7) Check the send error repot check box and click continue
8) ls -l /var/crash (observe _usr_bin_lp-grab-attachments .upload and
.uploaded files)
9) remove _usr_bin_lp-grab-attachments files in /var/crash
10) reinstall lptools
11) install package from -proposed, follow test case and there should *not*
be a .upload or .uploaded file as seen in step 8
[Regression Potential]
Worst-case scenario is that some crashes that should be reported fail to be
reported as a result of a bug in this change.
Every crash report that gets fixed in a package upload winds up with some
fuzziness in the bucket showing a small number of crash reports in the very
version that fixes it. E.g.:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=%2Fusr%2Fbin%2Fubuntuone-installer%3AGError%3Afinished%3Afunction
(bug #853060)
This makes it impossible to tell with certainty by looking at
errors.ubuntu.com if a crash is really fixed, or if it's just been
made less frequent. We need to have good data here to be able to use
errors.u.c for decision making around SRU publication.
The suspicion is that the rule preventing launchpad bugs from being
filed when the running process doesn't match the file on disk is not
being applied correctly to whoopsie. It definitely should be.
(It's possible that this is therefore a duplicate of bug #1020994.
I'm not sure, I haven't looked at the code.)
I would also argue that, if this happens in the "system service" case,
we should not show the user any crash dialog for it either, so long as
we don't have support for leading them to a targeted update to fix the
crash. We get no useful crash information from the user in this case,
and the risk of confusion from the dialog is great when it's a system
service crash. As a matter of policy, front-end applications need to
be resilient in the face of failures of back-end daemons.
ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: apport 2.4-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 20 12:34:10 2012InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid
Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-11 (70 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2012-05-04T17:01:02
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