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command-not-found package

command-not-found crashes when PATH is unset

Bug #258572 reported by jabbadoo
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
command-not-found (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: command-not-found

This happens for all commands typed command' and then adding a ' on the next line. this happens of cource for the " too...

prompt$ ls'
> '
Command 'ls' is available in '/bin/ls'

KABOOOM!!!

Whoops, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/command-not-found
Please include the following information with the report:
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 24, in <module>
    CommandNotFound(options.data_dir).advise(args[0])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CommandNotFound/CommandNotFound.py", line 115, in advise
    missing = list(set(prefixes) - set(os.getenv("PATH").split(":")))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'
Python version: 2.5.1 final 0
bash: ls
: command not found

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I have tried to reproduce your bug, but command-not-found does not crash. I have tested it with hardy and intrepid. Which version of Ubuntu do you use? Which version does command-not-found have?

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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

I confirm this on ubuntu.
Fixed branch is available at http://suxx.pl/~zyga/command-not-found--getenv-issues-fix/

Changed in command-not-found:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

sorry forgot to say: this was broken on hardy.

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Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) wrote :

This can happen when you unset PATH. It's a pathological case but it's broken (and now fixed in the mentioned branch)

Changed in command-not-found:
assignee: nobody → mvo
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in command-not-found:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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jabbadoo (jabbadoo) wrote : Re: [Bug 258572] Re: crash at quotation without space and newline

I use 7.10. Forgot to say, sorry. I don't understand what Zygmunt
Krynickimeans with reset PATH... I have not done anything like that,
but it seemed
so on the error... what ever, I have no idea...

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Benjamin Drung <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. I have tried to reproduce your bug, but command-not-found
> does not crash. I have tested it with hardy and intrepid. Which version
> of Ubuntu do you use? Which version does command-not-found have?
>
> --
> crash at quotation without space and newline
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258572
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package command-not-found - 0.2.23ubuntu1

---------------
command-not-found (0.2.23ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Zygmunt Krynicki ]
  * fix crash when PATH is unset (LP: #258572)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * scan.data:
    - updated to current intrepid

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:57:14 +0200

Changed in command-not-found:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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