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signal crashes fail when the user has been removed prior to crash

Bug #1163453 reported by Evan on 2013-04-02

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apport (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

oem-config removes the temporary user account, but its binaries will outlive this. In a recent case, indicator-session was crashing and in turn causing apport to crash while it attempted to look up the ignore file for that user:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/5670896/

ERROR: apport (pid 19818) Tue Apr 2 16:28:06 2013: Unhandled exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 369, in <module>
    if info.check_ignored():
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 955, in check_ignored
    dom = self._get_ignore_dom()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 892, in _get_ignore_dom
    ifpath = os.path.expanduser(_ignore_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/posixpath.py", line 261, in expanduser
    userhome = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir

Related branches

lp:~ev/apport/1163453

Merged into lp:~apport-hackers/apport/trunk at revision 2621

Martin Pitt (community): Approve on 2013-04-03

lp:~apport-hackers/apport/trunk

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2013-04-03

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-04-30:

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.10-0ubuntu1

---------------
apport (2.10-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream release. Changes since our previous snapshot:
    - Support retracing foreign powerpc reports, thanks Steve Langasek.
    - apport/report.py: Generate a crash signature for suspend/resume failures.
    - hookutils.py: Add attach_upstart_logs(), thanks Steve Langasek.
    - hookutils.py, in_session_of_problem(): Port from ConsoleKit to logind.
    - apport/report.py: Handle the case where the user has been removed from
      the system, but one of its still-running binaries crashes (LP: #1163453).
    - Fix anonymization of user/GECOS fields with regexp control characters
      like '+'. (LP: #985049)
    - Run tests under LC_CTYPE=C and unset LANG as well, to discover
      assumptions about UTF-8 locales. Fix the two failing tests.
    - Fix UnicodeDecodeError when apport encounters non-ASCII environment
      variables. (LP: #1172638)
  * debian/control: Update Vcs-* for saucy branch.
  * data/general-hooks/cloud_archive.py: Fix PEP-8 error.

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: Call attach_upstart_logs(), to attach the
    logs for any upstart user jobs shipped by the binary package.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:49:42 -0700

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

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