Bug#678244: apport: Apport sometimes generates reports without Package field

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: apport
Version: 2.2.3-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

>From times to times, apport is generating reports without the Package
field. This makes apport-retrace confused.

ERROR: report file does not contain one of the required fields: CoreDump
DistroRelease Package ExecutablePath

Editing the report and adding that field is an easy workaround.

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apport depends on:
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.32.1-1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7
ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1
ii python-apport 2.2.3-1
ii python-gi 3.2.2-1
ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-27

Versions of packages apport recommends:
pn apport-symptoms <none>

Versions of packages apport suggests:
ii apport-gtk 2.2.3-1

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[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Laurent,

On Wednesday 20 June 2012 02:40 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> >From times to times, apport is generating reports without the Package
> field. This makes apport-retrace confused.
>
> ERROR: report file does not contain one of the required fields: CoreDump
> DistroRelease Package ExecutablePath
>
> Editing the report and adding that field is an easy workaround.

Is this for a specific package (like a library or a python/perl script) ?
Is it only happening under a specific circumstance ?

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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"Necessity is the mother of invention."

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:39:04 +0530,
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com> a écrit :

> Hello Laurent,

Hi,

>
> On Wednesday 20 June 2012 02:40 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > >From times to times, apport is generating reports without the
> > >Package
> > field. This makes apport-retrace confused.
> >
> > ERROR: report file does not contain one of the required fields:
> > CoreDump DistroRelease Package ExecutablePath
> >
> > Editing the report and adding that field is an easy workaround.
> Is this for a specific package (like a library or a python/perl
> script) ? Is it only happening under a specific circumstance ?

No, it was C applications. I think that all these crashes
occur during boot or at first login in my gnome session.

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Wednesday 20 June 2012 04:54 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> No, it was C applications. I think that all these crashes
> occur during boot or at first login in my gnome session.

Something weird then. Can you check the files in your /var/crash to see
which ones have the ExecutablePath missing?

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:18:36 +0530,

Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com> a écrit :

> On Wednesday 20 June 2012 04:54 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > No, it was C applications. I think that all these crashes
> > occur during boot or at first login in my gnome session.
>
> Something weird then. Can you check the files in your /var/crash to
> see which ones have the ExecutablePath missing?
>

None, the ExecutablePath is set properly in the report missing the
Package field.

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Friday 29 June 2012 03:06 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> None, the ExecutablePath is set properly in the report missing the
> Package field.

Bug#638024

Do you think you are being hit with this bug?

This bug has been creating all sorts of silent problems for apport. It
just has been making it hard to determine the actual problem.