I installed apport version 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 from bionic-proposed and ran through the test case from the bug description and can confirm that automatic reporting was enabled and that there were no issues with whoopsie.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl status apport-autoreport.service ● apport-autoreport.service - Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apport-autoreport.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2019-03-05 08:49:56 PST; 4min 13s ago Process: 589 ExecStart=/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 589 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Mar 05 08:49:55 clean-bionic-amd64 systemd[1]: Starting Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled... Mar 05 08:49:56 clean-bionic-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled. bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy apport apport: Installed: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 Candidate: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 I'd prefer if somebody experiencing the issue on Ubuntu 18.04 could verify it though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787729 Title: apport-autoreport.service fails if whoopsie isn't running To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1787729/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
