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[apport] apport-retrace crashed with TypeError in b64decode()

Bug #83022 reported by Andrea Bedini on 2007-02-03

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apport (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apport

Crashing trying to report a crash is awful :-)

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Sat Feb 3 13:24:23 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-retrace
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: apport 0.47
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apport-retrace /var/crash/_usr_bin_vlc.1000.crash
ProcCwd: /home/andrea
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/home/andrea/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-retrace', '/var/crash/_usr_bin_vlc.1000.crash']
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux topetto 2.6.20-6-powerpc #3 Wed Jan 31 19:36:18 UTC 2007 ppc GNU/Linux

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Andrea Bedini (andreabedini) wrote on 2007-02-03:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (383 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (9.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (634 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (330 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2007-02-05:

#2

To fix this properly, I need to see your /var/crash/_usr_bin_vlc.1000.crash file. Can you please attach it here? Thanks!

Changed in apport:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Andrea Bedini (andreabedini) wrote on 2007-02-05: Re: [Bug 83022] Re: [apport] apport-retrace crashed with TypeError in b64decode()

#3

On 2/5/07, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:
> To fix this properly, I need to see your
> /var/crash/_usr_bin_vlc.1000.crash file. Can you please attach it here?

Gosh! it has been deleted :-/ I will try to reproduce this bug again.

By the way, if the crash file is malformed could apport-retrace exit
gracefully instead of crashing ?

Thanks,
Andrea

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2007-02-06:

#4

Since apport-retrace is mainly a developer tool, and will soon be replaced by an automatic service anyway, I didn't bother to invest too much effort to making it 'beautiful'. Of course I could just ignore such errors, but this might hide problems, and I rather get informed about such problems and fix their root cause.

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2007-02-09

Changed in apport:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2007-03-05:

#5

No further information for a month, so I close this for now. I will reopen once the original crash report that caused this problem is available (or, alternatively, a recipe how to reproduce it). Thank you!

Changed in apport:
status:	Needs Info → Rejected

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