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Title: not all package install failures generate a crash report Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I was trying to install the package crash-in-postinst package from the following PPA, https://launchpad.net/~daisy-pluckers/+archive/daisy- seeds/+packages. This package is specifically designed to fail during the post installation due to a maintainer script error. I was surprised to discover that software-center did not create a package install failure crash file in this case. I did receive an error message from aptdaemon that said the "Package operation failed". Digging into the software-center code I found the following: # lintian errors are ignored and not send to apport_recoverable_error # and dpkg errors as well as they will already be recorded separately # by apt itself if error_code in (enums.ERROR_INVALID_PACKAGE_FILE, enums.ERROR_PACKAGE_MANAGER_FAILED): return For some reason these errors are not being recorded when the package manager has failed. However, if one uses 'apt-get install' or 'aptdcon' to install the same package you will get a crash report. So I believe it is something with software-center itself that is preventing these crash reports from being generated. Apport provides a package_hook script, /usr/share/apport/package_hook, for creating package install failures so we could call that from software-center. I've written a patch that does just that. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: software-center 13.05-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/installbackend_impl/aptd.py usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/paths.py] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-1.8-generic 3.10.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.10.0-1-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 2e6ecd139611830c78226ad04ff4c093 CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f Date: Mon Jul 1 15:47:33 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-11-17 (956 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-04 (27 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1196740/+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
