This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064357 Title: apport crashed with : struct.error: unpack requires a bytes object of length 4 in problem_report.py, line 75, in write Status in Python: Fix Released Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Quantal armhf up to date Apport crashed with the error below following an apt-xapian-index crash. apport crash file attached. Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 575, in <lambda> GLib.idle_add(lambda: self.collect_info(on_finished=self.ui_update_view)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 983, in collect_info icthread.exc_raise() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 64, in exc_raise raise self._exception[1].with_traceback(self._exception[2]) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 34, in run self._retval = self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 61, in thread_collect_info report.add_gdb_info() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 652, in add_gdb_info self['CoreDump'].write(f) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 75, in write block = gz.read(1048576) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/gzip.py", line 343, in read self._read(readsize) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/gzip.py", line 405, in _read self._read_eof() File "/usr/lib/python3.2/gzip.py", line 437, in _read_eof crc32 = read32(self.fileobj) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/gzip.py", line 37, in read32 return struct.unpack("<I", input.read(4))[0] struct.error: unpack requires a bytes object of length 4 It seems that apport showed up and started reporting the bug while the crash file (apt-xapian-index in this case) was not completely written to disk. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/python/+bug/1064357/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp