Public bug reported: In the middle while doing a do-release-upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 I had a crash. After restarting, I had a look in the log file and saw at the bottom, it has something to do with permissions:
$ cat _usr_share_apport_apport-gtk.1000.crash ProblemType: Crash Date: Tue Apr 29 23:37:11 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk ExecutableTimestamp: 1386693790 InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3 ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk ProcCwd: /home/michael.heuberger ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh ProcMaps: (REMOVED) ProcStatus: Name: apport-gtk State: R (running) Tgid: 3251 Pid: 3251 PPid: 3247 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 Gid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 FDSize: 64 Groups: 4 24 27 30 46 107 119 124 128 135 999 1000 VmPeak: 372124 kB VmSize: 354544 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 29964 kB VmRSS: 29964 kB VmData: 163308 kB VmStk: 136 kB VmExe: 3224 kB VmLib: 24456 kB VmPTE: 420 kB VmSwap: 0 kB Threads: 3 SigQ: 0/47519 SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 0000000001001000 SigCgt: 0000000180000002 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 CapBnd: 0000001fffffffff Seccomp: 0 Cpus_allowed: ffff Cpus_allowed_list: 0-15 Mems_allowed: 00000000,00000001 Mems_allowed_list: 0 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 113 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 14 PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk'] Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 590, in <module> app.run_argv() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 685, in run_argv return self.run_crashes() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 215, in run_crashes if not self.load_report(f): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 1248, in load_report self.cur_package = apport.fileutils.find_file_package(self.report.get('ExecutablePath', '')) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 100, in find_file_package return packaging.get_file_package(file) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 341, in get_file_package stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 824, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 1448, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied UserGroups: adm cdrom couchdb dip lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev prey sambashare sudo vboxusers I ran the do-release-upgrade process with sudo, so there shouldn't be any permission issues. Weird. Can you give me some hints? Thanks! ** Affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314163 Title: apport-gtk throws permission denied Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In the middle while doing a do-release-upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 I had a crash. After restarting, I had a look in the log file and saw at the bottom, it has something to do with permissions: $ cat _usr_share_apport_apport-gtk.1000.crash ProblemType: Crash Date: Tue Apr 29 23:37:11 2014 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk ExecutableTimestamp: 1386693790 InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3 ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk ProcCwd: /home/michael.heuberger ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh ProcMaps: (REMOVED) ProcStatus: Name: apport-gtk State: R (running) Tgid: 3251 Pid: 3251 PPid: 3247 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 Gid: 1000 1000 1000 1000 FDSize: 64 Groups: 4 24 27 30 46 107 119 124 128 135 999 1000 VmPeak: 372124 kB VmSize: 354544 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmPin: 0 kB VmHWM: 29964 kB VmRSS: 29964 kB VmData: 163308 kB VmStk: 136 kB VmExe: 3224 kB VmLib: 24456 kB VmPTE: 420 kB VmSwap: 0 kB Threads: 3 SigQ: 0/47519 SigPnd: 0000000000000000 ShdPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000000000000 SigIgn: 0000000001001000 SigCgt: 0000000180000002 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 CapBnd: 0000001fffffffff Seccomp: 0 Cpus_allowed: ffff Cpus_allowed_list: 0-15 Mems_allowed: 00000000,00000001 Mems_allowed_list: 0 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 113 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 14 PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk'] Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 590, in <module> app.run_argv() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 685, in run_argv return self.run_crashes() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 215, in run_crashes if not self.load_report(f): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 1248, in load_report self.cur_package = apport.fileutils.find_file_package(self.report.get('ExecutablePath', '')) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 100, in find_file_package return packaging.get_file_package(file) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 341, in get_file_package stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 824, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 1448, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied UserGroups: adm cdrom couchdb dip lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev prey sambashare sudo vboxusers I ran the do-release-upgrade process with sudo, so there shouldn't be any permission issues. 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