apport not turned on for distribution upgrades

Michael - could we get this included with the no zero byte files for bug 772052? This will allow us to get some higher quality bug reports for distribution upgrades if update-manager crashes.

Accepted update-manager into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

During the verification of bug 773022, the upgrade failed and apport didn't triggered. Instead of the I got the dist-upgrader dialog saying that update-manager will now try to recover. Additionally there's nothing in /var/crash/

Marking as verification-failed.

on the other hand: 'status apport' reports that apport is running. So on that point the verification succeeded.

I ran a distribution upgrade from Maverick to Natty using update-manager from natty-proposed and observed apport running during the distribution upgrade and it being turned off at the end of the upgrade. So while the upgrade failed when trying to verify bug 773022 I don't think verification of this particular bug report should be marked as failed.

I took a different approach to reproduce and modified update-mime to always exit with status 1.
I have verified that the version of update-manager 1:0.150.2 in -proposed fixes the issue.
apport is started during the release upgrade, the directory /var/crash is created if it doesn't exists, and a crash file is created for each crash during the upgrade.
At the end of the upgrade, a report is sent for each crash, assigned to the right package and with the logs from /var/log/dist-upgrade attached.

Marking as verification-done.

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.150.2

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update-manager (1:0.150.2) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - point to "natty" branch
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - remove "kde-plasmoid-cwp" early as it will break upgrades
      later (LP: #773022)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py:
    - do not fail if not all meta-package can not be upgraded, packages
      like ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop have implicit conflicts
      LP: #775411

update-manager (1:0.150.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py:
    - do not report zero size attachments (LP: #772052)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - enable apport for distribution upgrades (LP: #772913)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - use service to start apport

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - Remove 'dontzap' from kubuntu-desktops rules (LP: #769680).
      This fixes a upgrade issue when a old package is leftover
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 02 May 2011 09:52:35 +0200