No apport report generated for kernel oops

According to https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kerneloops/+bug/327819/comments/14 this is a side effect of bug 340773

Confirming based on comments in bug 340773

There is an apport traceback in the /var/log/apport.log:

apport (pid 17813) Thu Mar 19 09:57:11 2009: Unhandled exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 220, in <module>
    drop_privileges(pid, True)
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 54, in drop_privileges
    raise ValueError, 'Invalid process ID: ' + str(e)
ValueError: Invalid process ID: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/3714'
pid: 17813, uid: 0, gid: 0, euid: 0, egid: 0
environment: {}
apport (pid 17855) Thu Mar 19 09:57:11 2009: another apport instance is already running, aborting
apport (pid 17853) Thu Mar 19 09:57:12 2009: another apport instance is already running, aborting

The problem is that the config file parser is broken:

 (gdb) print submit_pipe
 $1 = 0x1c73360 "/usr/share/apport/kernel_oops\n"

This is true for the other string options as well. The attached patch fixes it.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:53:45PM -0000, Ken VanDine wrote:
>
> There is an apport traceback in the /var/log/apport.log:
>
> apport (pid 17813) Thu Mar 19 09:57:11 2009: Unhandled exception:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 220, in <module>
> drop_privileges(pid, True)
> File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 54, in drop_privileges
> raise ValueError, 'Invalid process ID: ' + str(e)
> ValueError: Invalid process ID: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/3714'
> pid: 17813, uid: 0, gid: 0, euid: 0, egid: 0
> environment: {}
> apport (pid 17855) Thu Mar 19 09:57:11 2009: another apport instance is already running, aborting
> apport (pid 17853) Thu Mar 19 09:57:12 2009: another apport instance is already running, aborting

Are you sure that is from kerneloops? It looks like it's from a segfault.
According to my testing, kerneloops has never successfully invoked apport.

--
 - mdz

Glad to see you figured it out. I am not certain, it does happen every time i resume which is when i get the oops. So I guess something else is crashing on suspend/resume as well.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:16:13PM -0000, Ken VanDine wrote:
> Glad to see you figured it out. I am not certain, it does happen every
> time i resume which is when i get the oops. So I guess something else
> is crashing on suspend/resume as well.

I get it on every resume due to:

[47611.466014] WARNING: synaptics was reset on resume, see synaptics_resume_reset if you have trouble on resume

--
 - mdz

attached debdiff

Attaching a patch to eliminate compiler error due to missing ctype.h in configfile.c

This bug was fixed in the package kerneloops - 0.12-0ubuntu4

---------------
kerneloops (0.12-0ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * debian/applied-patches/kerneloops-applet.c.patch: Convert notification to
    a dialog. Applied inline, since package has no patch system. (LP: #344377)
  * debian/rules: Remove test/*dbg, these should be cleaned by the Makefile
  * debian/applied-patches/submit.c.patch: Fix the config parser so that it
    will actually work with apport. Thanks to Matt Zimmerman for the patch!
    (LP: #344813)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Moved *.patch to debian/applied-patches/, to be a little less confusing.

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:48:36 -0400