apport gets update wrong

Bug #886111 reported by pirad
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Brian Murray

Bug Description

In the attached picture is shown, that my system was upgraded to natty on 2011-11-01 but that was just the day I abborted an upgrade to oneiric. I think that information is wrong.

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pirad (apwb-d) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

The UpgradeStatus comes from this bit of code, in Precise:

    log ='/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log'
    if os.path.exists(log):
        mtime = os.stat(log).st_mtime
        human_mtime = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', time.gmtime(mtime))
        delta = time.time() - mtime

        # Would be nice if this also showed which release was originally installed
        report['UpgradeStatus'] = 'Upgraded to %s on %s (%d days ago)' % (release_codename, human_mtime, delta / 86400)
    else:
        report['UpgradeStatus'] = 'No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)'

Perhaps we should be looking for a different log file if /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log is created for upgrades that are aborted. I wonder if apt-term.log would be a better check.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.95-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.95-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream release:
    - apport-gtk, apport-kde: When reporting a "system crash", don't say "...
      of this program version", but "...of this type", as we don't show a
      program version in the initial dialog
      (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#error) (LP: #961065)
    - problem_report.py, write_mime(): Do not put a key inline if it is bigger
      than 1 kB, to guard against very long lines. (LP: #957326)
    - etc/cron.daily/apport: Do not remove whoopsie's *.upload* stamps every
      day, only if they are older than a week. whoopsie comes with its own
      cron job which deals with them. Thanks Steve Langasek. (LP: #957102)
    - report.py, mark_ignore(): Fix crash if executable went away underneath
      us. (LP: #961410)
    - apport-gtk: Do not compare current continue button label against a
      translated string. Instead just remember whether or not we can restart
      the application. (LP: #960439)
    - hookutils.py, command_output(): Add option to keep the locale instead of
      disabling it.
    - hookutils.py, command_output(): Actually make the "input" parameter
      work, instead of causing an eternal hang. Add tests for all possible
      modes of operation.
    - hooktuils.py: Change root_command_output() and
      attach_root_command_outputs() to disable translated messages
      (LC_MESSAGES=C) only as part of the command to be run, not already for
      the root prefix command. This will keep the latter (gksu, kdesudo, etc.)
      translated. (LP: #961659)
    - apport-gtk: Cut off text values after 4000 characters, as Gtk's TreeView
      does not get along well with huge values. KDE's copes fine, so continue
      to display the complete value there. (LP: #957062)
    - apport-gtk: Make details window resizable in bug reporting mode.
    - crashdb.py, known(): Check the address signature duplicate database if
      the symbolic signature exists, but did not find any result. (LP: #103083)
    - ui.py: Run anonymization after checking for duplicates, to prevent host
      or user names which look like hex numbers to corrupt the stack trace.
      (LP: #953104)
    - apport-gtk: Require an application to both have TERM and SHELL in its
      environment to consider it a command line application that was started
      by the user. (LP: #962130)
    - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py, _check_files_md5(): Fix double encoding,
      which caused UnicodeDecodeErrors on non-ASCII characters in an md5sum
      file. (LP: #953682)
    - apport-kde, apport-gtk: Only show "Relaunch" if the report has a
      ProcCmdline, otherwise we cannot restart it. (LP: #956173)
    - apport-gtk, apport-kde: Show the ExecutablePath while we're collecting
      data for the crash report. Thanks Evan Dandrea. (LP: #938707).
  * debian/copyright: Change to copyright format 1.0.
  * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3.

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: use main.log to determine UpgradeStatus not
    apt.log (LP: #886111)
 -- Martin Pitt <<email address hidden>...

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status: In Progress → Fix Released
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