Hello Steve, or anyone else affected, Accepted apport into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.6.1-0ubuntu4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! ** Description changed: - TEST CASE: + [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) sudo vi /etc/default/apport 2) set enabled=1 3) sudo service apport start 4) install lp-grab-attachments 5) lp-grab-attachments 2039920 (should crash with a keyerror) 6) close the apport dialog regarding the application crashing (via the X in the corner) 7) sudo vi $(which lp-grab-attachments) 8) modify copyright year or some comment 9) ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_usr_bin_lp-grab-attachments.*crash 10) observe apport dialog that this is unreportable and click okay 11) ls -l /var/crash (observe _usr_bin_lp-grab-attachments .upload and .uploaded files) 12) remove _usr_bin_lp-grab-attachments files in /var/crash - 13) reinstall lptools + 13) reinstall lptools 13) install package from -proposed, follow test case and there should *not* be a .upload or .uploaded file as seen in step 11 + + [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 ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Quantal) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1039220/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
