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apport package

apport should not offer to report npviewer.bin crashes

Bug #717468 reported by Brian Murray
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt
Natty
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apport

If the crash is about npviewer.bin using the plugin from flashplugin-installer (Adobe's) then I don't think apport should offer to report the crash. Or better yet not write it to /var/crash.

We have 626 New bugs about nspluginwrapper, 538 of which are tagged apport-failed-retrace. There really isn't much value in these crashes at this point in time and we are just misleading bug reporters and wasting resources.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: apport 1.17.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-2.29-generic 2.6.38-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-2-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488
CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
Date: Fri Feb 11 15:03:54 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: apport

Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :
Revision history for this message
C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Marking Triaged/High: (1) there is indeed no reason to open a bug on the Adobe flash plugin; (2) this creates an expectation that something will be done, and we cannot do anything.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu Natty):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport (Ubuntu Natty):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.18-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.18-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream release:
    - Ensure that symptom scripts define a run() function, and don't show them
      if not.
    - Do not show symptom scripts which start with an underscore. These can be
      used for private libraries for the actual symptom scripts.
    - Update bash completion. Thanks Philip Muškovac.
    - etc/default/apport: Remove obsolete "maxsize" setting. (LP: #719564)
    - Remove explicit handling of KDE *.ui files in setup.py, as
      python-distutils-extra 2.24 fixes this. Bump version check.
    - hookutils.py: Add attach_root_command_outputs() to run several commands
      at once. This avoids asking for the password several times.
      (LP: #716595)
  * debian/apport.postinst: Add missing debhelper token.
  * debian/rules: Drop dump_acpi_tables.py chmod workaround, it's upstream now
    and has the proper permissions.
  * Add etc/apport/blacklist.d/apport and drop the creation of it in
    /debian/rules. This is easier to maintain and more obvious. Also move
    README.blacklist from python-apport to apport, it fits better there.
  * etc/apport/blacklist.d/apport: Add the binaries of nspluginwrapper, as we
    can't do anything about them anyway. (LP: #717468)

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * data/package-hooks/source_linux.py: Properly set regression-release tag if
    the reporter chooses "I do not know".
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:29:36 +0100

Changed in apport (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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