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apport package

apport-retrace fails on reports for scripts

Bug #72201 reported by Laurent Bonnaud on 2006-11-17

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apport (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apport

Here is the problem:

$ apport-retrace -d /var/crash/_usr_bin_gaphor.1000.crash
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-retrace", line 189, in ?
    debug_dir = prepare_debugdir(report, options.cache_dir)
  File "/usr/bin/apport-retrace", line 129, in prepare_debugdir
    assert ldd.returncode == 0
AssertionError

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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote on 2006-11-17:

crash file Edit (1.7 MiB, text/plain)

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote on 2006-11-17:

apport >gaphor

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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote on 2006-11-17:

I do not agree with the previous change: this is a bug in apport itself.

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Caroline Ford (secretlondon) wrote on 2006-11-17:

The trace says:

Core was generated by `/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gaphor'.

The trace is the file that crashed apport?

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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote on 2006-11-17: Re: [Bug 72201] Re: AssertionError with -d option

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 21:24 +0000, Caroline Ford wrote:
> The trace is the file that crashed apport?

Yes it is.

--
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2006-11-25: Re: AssertionError with -d option

Hmm, this is a bit hard to reproduce since gaphor is uninstallable in both edgy and feisty (on amd64 at least).

Changed in apport:
assignee:	nobody → pitti

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2006-11-25:

Can you please give me the output of

file /usr/bin/gaphor
ldd /usr/bin/gaphor; echo $?

? Thank you!

Changed in apport:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote on 2006-11-26: Re: [Bug 72201] Re: AssertionError with -d option

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 08:27 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Can you please give me the output of
>
> file /usr/bin/gaphor
> ldd /usr/bin/gaphor; echo $?

Here it is:

$ file /usr/bin/gaphor
/usr/bin/gaphor: python script text executable

$ ldd /usr/bin/gaphor; echo $?
not a dynamic executable
1

--
Laurent Bonnaud.
http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2006-12-14: Re: AssertionError with -d option

Ah, I see. apport-retrace should use the InterpreterPath for ldd'ing, not the ExecutablePath.

Changed in apport:
status:	Needs Info → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2006-12-14

Changed in apport:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2006-12-15:

#10

apport (0.32) feisty; urgency=low
.
   * apport_utils.py: Filter out "no debugging symbols found" warnings from gdb
     outputs, and add some tests for this. Thanks to Kees Cook for the patch!
   * test-apport: Fix AGENTPATH directory when building the preload library
     (recently moved to bin/).
   * use-local: Fix path to apport as well (recently moved to bin/).
   * apport-retrace: Use ldd on InterpreterPath if present; ldd'ing scripts
     will not get us very far. Closes: LP#72201