Change log for apport package in Ubuntu
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apport (0.25) edgy; urgency=low
* Drop apport-gtk's update-notifier dependency to a Recommends:.
* apport_utils.py, report_add_gdb_info(): Add register dump and disassembly
of the last 32 bytes, they might be useful to see what's going on
sometimes. Thanks to Kees Cook for the idea and the patch.
* test-apport, check_crash(): Verify that a crash does not leave a core file
behind. (Test for LP#62972)
* preloadlib/libapport.c: Do not unlink the core file after calling apport,
but set REMOVE_CORE=1 environment instead. This matches the current
kernel behaviour.
* apport: Register an atexit handler as early as possible for unlinking the
core dump if REMOVE_CORE environment is set. Closes: LP#62972
* apport: Set nice level 10 instead of 5. Closes: LP#63099
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:21:53 +0200
apport (0.24) edgy; urgency=low
The "Need for speed" release -- rrrroarrr!
* apport: Remove _copy_shrink_corefile(): While this has an enormous impact
on the size of an uncompressed core dump, it only causes a negligible size
reduction of the bzip2'ed core, but it needs a lot of I/O resources for
large core dumps.
* problem_report.py:
- Use zlib instead of bzip2 for compressing the binary data (in
particular, core dumps). This results in slightly bigger files, but speeds
up compression a lot (30 seconds vs. ~2:45 minutes for a Firefox core dump
on my slow iBook). Closes: LP#61538
- ProblemReport.read(): Support both bzip2 and zlib compression to be able
to read existing reports, too.
- Add/Adapt test cases.
* Move InformationCollector._get_gdb() from apport to apport_utils.py
report_add_gdb_info(), and add a test case for it.
* apport_utils.py, report_add_package_info(): Support calling without a
package name, then it will be figured out from ExecutableName. Extend test
case accordingly.
* test-apport: Do not require apport reports to contain gdb, packaging, and
OS information, since we are going to move them out of apport.
* apport: Do not collect static information. It requires a lot of CPU and
I/O resources and slows down the machine a lot, and it can be added to
the report later in the frontend. This also gets rid of the entire
InformationCollector class, since everything has been moved to
apport_utils.py now. Closes: LP#62542
* apport: Do not intercept KeyboardInterrupt as unhandled exception (only
useful for command line debugging, though).
* problem_report.py: Add test case for appending new data to an existing
report, fix write() function to not rely on an existing ProblemType key.
* problem_report.py: Add new method ProblemReport.add_to_existing() to
update an already existing problem report with new data. Add test case.
* apport_utils.py, mark_report_seen(): Use os.utime() instead of
open()/read() and a timeout for simpler and faster operation.
* gtk/apport-gtk:
- Collect gdb/packaging/operating system information when the user chooses
to file a bug and update the apport report.
- Change the 'Downloading bug patterns...' progress dialog to 'Collecting
information about the crash...'.
* debian/control: Bumped library dependencies of apport-gtk, added
update-notifer dependency.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:47:56 +0200
apport (0.23) edgy; urgency=low
* apport: Reset signal handler to SIG_IGN in the crash signal handler, to
avoid an endless crash/handler loop (noticed during debugging LP#61708).
* debian/apport.init: Do not let the script run with set -e, so that
do_{start,stop} can deliver their return codes for proper evaluation,
instead of immediately existing. Closes: LP#61796
* test-apport: Check that SIGQUIT does not generate a report. (Check for
bug #62511).
* apport: Ignore SIGQUIT. Closes: LP#62511
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:57:38 +0200
apport (0.22) edgy; urgency=low
* apport_utils.py, report_add_proc_info(): Make 'interpreted script'
detection more general to also work for mono programs.
* test-apport: Check that non-packaged scripts do not generate a report.
* apport: Call ic.collect_runtime_information() earlier and drop the local
/proc/pid/exe examination, so that we get proper script detection. This
avoids getting crash reports for non-packaged scripts (see test case
change from above).
* apport: Do not try to chmod the report file if we could not create it and
output to stderr instead (this mainly affects local testing only).
* apport_utils.py, find_file_package(): First grep the package lists whose
names are a substring of the crashed binary name (or vice versa), to
immensely speed up the package name determination in many cases.
* apport: Drop the maximum number of consecutive crashes per executable
from 5 to 2. 5 creates a too bad user experience and creates the
impression that it will never stop. Closes: LP#61078
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:16:46 +0200
apport (0.21) edgy; urgency=low
* apport: Keep a partially written report with '000' permissions, and only
chmod it to 0600 when it is fully written. This stops update-notifier from
picking up half-written reports and get activated several times.
Closes: LP#59988
* apport: Add the executable path to the first line of logging.
* apport: Run the complete code under control of the general exception
fallback handler.
* debian/apport.default: Increase maximum core size to 200 MB, to also catch
Firefox and Evolution core dumps.
* apport_utils.py, find_file_package(): Before searching the dpkg database
(which is expensive), check if the executable path matches a whitelist of
path prefixes. This replaces the weaker blacklist (/tmp and /home) in
apport itself.
* gtk/apport-gtk: Show a progress dialog while checking for bug patterns and
execute report_search_bug_patterns() in a separate thread, so that the UI
is not potentially blocked for a long time.
* apport: Gracefully abort if we cannot readlink /proc/pid/exe, instead of
falling over with an exception. Closes: LP#59993
* debian/rules: Use 'multiuser' instead of 'defaults' for dh_installinit.
Clean up the unnecessary rc symlinks in postinst and add appropriate
sysv-rc dependency.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:16:26 +0200
apport (0.20) edgy; urgency=low
* apport: Renice ourself to priority 5 to not slow down the user's processes
so heavily.
* Add manpages for apport-retrace(1) and apport-unpack(1) and install them
into apport. Closes: LP#58463
* problem_report.py: Test attaching two files instead of one in the
test_write_file() regression check to assert correct key sorting.
* problem_report.py: Alter write() method to sort binary data to the end of
the report. This makes reports easier to read, and also shows relevant
information more quickly when progressively loading them in a web browser.
Adapt regression tests accordingly.
* Move setting of ExecutablePath from apport's InformationCollector ctor to
apport_utils' report_add_proc_info(), where it belongs to. Check
ExecutablePath in apport_utils' regression tests.
* apport-unpack: Support '-' as report argument to read from stdin.
* apport_utils.py, report_add_proc_info():
- Apply some heuristics to determine whether the crashed process is an
interpreted script (check if the Name in /proc/pid/status matches
the second /proc/pid/cmdline part, and if that command line argument is
an existing executable file). In the case of an interpreted script, set
ExecutablePath to the script and InterpreterPath to the actually crashed
ELF binary.
- Test this with a shell (/bin/zgrep) and a Python (./apport-unpack)
script in the test suite.
- Closes: LP#58859
* Add debian/apport.logrotate to add a daily 7-step /var/log/apport
log rotation.
* test-apport: Fix WCOREDUMP() and pidof checks in check_crash().
* apport: Install a signal handler for all 'crashy' signals, which just logs
the signal and stack info and exits. This should avoid a crashing apport
examining itself, possibly in an endless loop. Closes: LP#58873
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:20:18 +0200
apport (0.19) edgy; urgency=low
* apport_utils.py: Add function report_search_bug_patterns(): Try to
download a package specific bug pattern XML file from a given URL base
directory and return the bug URL in case of a match. Also add extensive
test suite check.
* test-apport: Fix help message.
* apport-gtk: Make use of the new report_search_bug_patterns() function and
display appropriate instructions on match. Bump python-apport-utils dependency.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:31:17 +0200
apport (0.18) edgy; urgency=low
The "mating dance for ubiquity" release.
* apport-gtk:
- Use pidof's -x option in the detection whether the program is already
running to correctly handle scripts.
- Do not assume the presence of the ExecutablePath key in reports, but
gracefully fall back to Package.
- If the report specifies an explicit DesktopFile, use that instead of
trying to figure it out.
- Only created reduced report and show the radio buttons if there are
actually removed fields.
- Change tooltip of 'reduced report' radio button to be more generic (do
not refer to the memory dump, but to 'large items', since this is what
apport-gtk currently does).
- Support new field 'BugDisplayMode: file | list (default)'. In 'file'
mode, display the /+filebug page instead of /+bugs and change
instructions accordingly.
- Use the ProcCmdline attibute to restart an application; correctly
parsing of all the desktop file is just not possible at this point.
- Support new field 'RespawnCommand' to use custom respawning command.
* problem_report.py: Add method has_removed_fields() to check whether load()
skipped any fields due to binary=False. Add test suite check.
* apport_utils.py: Fix the quoting in ProcCmdline so that it is fully shell
compatible.
* run-tests: Check if kernel crash dump helper is active, and if so, run
test-apport in kernel mode.
* problem_report.py: Support an optional second argument of file references
which controls whether or not the file contents will be compressed/encoded
(defaults to True for backwards compatibility). Add test suite checks.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:01:47 +0200
apport (0.17) edgy; urgency=low
* Move packaging information collection from apport to new function
report_add_package_info() in apport_utils.py, add test suite check.
* Move operating system information collection from apport to new function
report_add_os_info() in apport_utils.py, add test suite check.
* Move /proc information collection from apport to new function
report_add_proc_info() in apport_utils.py, add test suite check, and fix
handling of failed /proc/$$/environ reading.
* preloadlib/libapport.c: Route gcore's stderr to /dev/null to suppress
error messages during the test suite and to become more compatible to the
kernel behaviour.
* Change apport_utils.py to be a public module and ship it in the new
python-apport-utils package, so that other applications like ubiquity can
use it easily.
* po/de.po: Add new translations to make this complete again.
* problem_report.py, apport_utils.py: Prepend UnitTest classes with '_' so
that they do not appear in the help() output.
* apport_utils.py: Add make_report_path(), which constructs the canonical
crash report pathname for a given report.
* Add debian/apport.postinst: Remove /usr/share/apport/apport_utils.pyc when
upgrading from an earlier version, so that the programs in
/usr/share/apport actually use the version from p-apport-utils.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:14:00 +0200
apport (0.16) edgy; urgency=low
* test-apport: Check that non-packaged binaries do not generate a report.
* apport_utils.py: Add find_file_package() to find the package a file
belongs to. This uses fgrep /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list which is much faster
than dpkg -S. Also add test suite check.
* apport: Use find_file_package() instead of direct dpkg -S call and pass
the result to the InformationCollector ctor to avoid grepping the dpkg
lists twice.
* apport: Immediately exit if the executable name starts with /home or /tmp,
to avoid grepping the dpkg database in the common developer case.
* apport: Replace 0-bytes in ProcCmdline with spaces to keep them readable.
* apport-gtk: Offer an alternative small report (without the core dump) for
users with slow internet connection.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:34:47 +0200
apport (0.15) edgy; urgency=low
* Add apport-unpack: Script to extract the fields of a problem report into
separate files into a new or empty directory. Mainly useful for extracting
compressed binary data like the core dump.
* test-apport: Check that dumped environment only contains security
insensitive variables.
* apport: Filter out all environment variables but $SHELL, $PATH, and
locale/language related ones. Closes: LP#56846
* test-apport: Delete test report in the cleanup handler so that the
kernel-mode test can be run multiple times without manual cleanup.
* test-apport: Check for running apport and test executable processes in
check_crash().
* preloadlib/libapport.c: Improve error checking, some robustification.
* test-apport: If using the preload library, wait a second between the test
process invocations in the flooding test to mitigate a strange race
condition that sometimes causes the signal handler not to be executed.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:28:43 +0200
apport (0.14) edgy; urgency=low
* preloadlib/libapport.c: Write core dump into cwd instead of /tmp to act
like the current kernel.
* apport_utils.py: Check APPORT_REPORT_DIR environment variable for an
alternate crash report directory. This is mainly useful for a local test
suite.
* apport: Quiesce the apt module's FutureWarning.
* preloadlib/libapport.c: Re-raise the signal instead of doing exit() so
that the process exits with the same code as it would do without the
library.
* preloadlib/libapport.c: Close stdout for gcore process.
* Add test-apport: Use preloadlib/ and APPORT_REPORT_DIR to create a
sandboxed environment and run various apport functionality tests. Also add
this script to run-tests.
* apport_utils.py, delete_report(): Actually try to unlink the report before
falling back to truncating it to zero bytes.
* preloadlib/libapport.c: Close stderr for apport process.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:46:37 +0200
apport (0.13) edgy; urgency=low
* Do not run the test suite on build since on the buildds modifying
file atimes does not work.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:59:26 +0200
apport (0.12) edgy; urgency=low
* apport-gtk: Make bug report window resizable when the details are
expanded. Closes: LP#56672
* apport_utils.py: Add get_recent_crashes() and a test suite check for it.
* apport: If the same binary produced more than 5 crashes in the last 24
hours, ignore the crash. This is a hideous and pretty ad-hoc band-aid to
avoid flooding users with reports for continuously crashing respawning
processes. Closes: LP#56362
* apport: Clean up exit codes to only exit with 0 if report was created, and
with 1 otherwise (to become more compatible to proposed future kernel
behaviour, where core dumps are only generated on demand).
* Add run-tests script which calls all available selftests.
* debian/rules: Run run-tests during build to have the package FTBFS on
regressions. Add python build dependency for this (it is already there
implicitly anyway).
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:06:41 +0200
apport (0.11) edgy; urgency=low
* gtk/apport-gtk.glade: Remove separators from dialogs. Closes: LP#56326
* apport:
- Move information collection from ctor to two new separate functions
collect_runtime_information() (fast, privileged, crashed process must
exist) and collect_static_information() (slow, unprivileged, crashed
process does not need to exist). This allows a cleaner design.
- Add missing close() call in init_error_log().
- Do not catch SystemExit in the final catch-all-and-log clause (will
become important once we switch to master/slave processes).
- Clean up handling of temporary files.
- Log successful report creation with file and package name, to ease
debugging.
- transitive_dependencies(): Do not break on pure virtual dependencies
(like perl-api-XXX).
* Add debian/apport.default: Default file to disable apport entirely and to
change the maximum size of kernel created core dumps.
* debian/apport.init: Evaluate new default file.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:05:19 +0200
apport (0.10) edgy; urgency=low
* apport-gtk: Show report file size in bug report window.
* apport: Correctly handle relative paths to core dumps (use crashed
process' cwd).
* Fix the GPL URLs in source file's copyright comments.
* debian/apport.cron.daily: Add -mindepth 1 to find commands to avoid
attempting to remove the /var/crash/ directory. Closes: LP#55107
* problem_report.py:
- Fix precise whitespace handling in continuation lines, add selftest.
- Add selftest for reading a report, modifying fields, and writing it
back.
- Fix writing back binary data, adapt test suite to check it.
- Fixed ProblemReport.load() to clean up old data, added selftest.
- Restructure class to inherit from IterableUserDict and throw away all
the now obsolete dictionary wrapper methods.
* debian/apport.init: Add colon to description to make output less
confusing.
* Add apport-retrace and install it into apport: This tool takes a crash
report and refreshes the stack traces in it. This is particularly useful
if debug symbols are installed now, but haven't been at the time the crash
occured.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:40:05 +0200
apport (0.9) edgy; urgency=low
* apport: Call objcopy to throw out READONLY/CODE sections from the core
dump, which drastically reduces its (uncompressed) size (factor 2 to 10).
This has little effect on the bzip2'ed core dump, though.
* apport:
- Support an optional third command line argument which specifies the
location of a core dump.
- If a core dump is given, call gdb on the core dump instead of the
crashed process. We cannot attach to the latter if we are called by the
kernel (since the crashed process is in uninterruptible kernel sleep).
- If no core dump is given, do not attempt to do anything gdb related.
- This matches the future behaviour of the kernel crash dump helper while
remaining compatible to the previous call semantics.
* Add preloadlib/{Makefile,libapport.c}: LD_PRELOADable library which
emulates the future kernel behaviour. This is ONLY for testing and
development purposes. It uses unsafe temporary file handling and thus must
not be used on production boxes!
* Ship preloadlib/* as examples in package 'apport' for people who want to
play with it until the new kernel arrives.
* Add preloadlib/README: Explain how to use the preload library.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:12:20 +0200
apport (0.8) edgy; urgency=low
* apport_utils.py:
- Add two new functions seen_report() and mark_report_seen().
- get_new_reports(): Only return unseen reports, add function
get_all_reports() for the old behaviour.
* gtk/apport-gtk.py: Do not delete reports after notifying about them. This
way, we do not need to add another button to save the report (which is
considered evil UI-wise), but still retain the report for filing and
examining later.
* Replace all usages of '/var/crash' to a new global variable in
apport_utils; this is particularly useful for test suites.
* apport.py: Overwrite old reports if they are seen.
* apport_utils.py: Add a test suite for all exported functions.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:29:23 +0200
apport (0.7) edgy; urgency=low
* Add apport-utils.py: Factorize out some common code of apport-gtk,
possible future frontends, and some backend tools.
* Add apport-checkreports: Test if there are new crash reports for the
invoking user. This factorizes out the tests we currently do in
update-notifier and makes them easier to change and keep in sync with
apport itself. Ship the script in the apport package.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:24:46 +0200
apport (0.6) edgy; urgency=low * Add missing intltool build dependency to fix FTBFS. -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:15:42 +0200
apport (0.5) edgy; urgency=low * apport-gtk: Remove the crash report after it got displayed. * apport-gtk: Fix exception on startup if no readable crash reports exist. -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:42:34 +0200
apport (0.4) edgy; urgency=low
* Implement completely new UI according to the design described at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CrashReporting. Many thanks to Matthew Paul
Thomas!
* po/Makefile: Fix default target to not just break. Now it builds the .pot
file.
* debian/rules: Build .pot file on package build for automatic Rosetta
import.
* Bring German translations up to date.
* po/Makefile: Supply '--language=python' to intltool-update to properly
extract strings from apport-gtk.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:14:58 +0200
apport (0.3) edgy; urgency=low
* debian/rules clean: Also clean po/.
* debian/apport.cron.daily: Clean away empty files everytime.
* apport: Only consider a report as already present if it has a non-zero
size.
* apport: Set proper group for report files instead of 'root'.
* apport-gtk: Ignore 0-sized reports.
* apport-gtk: Add button to remove the current report (by truncating the
file to zero bytes; a user cannot unlink files in /var/crash).
* apport-gtk: Only display reports that the user can actually read.
* problem_report.py: Add 'binary' option to ProblemReport.load() to
optionally skip binary data.
* debian/rules: Clean stale *.pyc files.
* python-gtk: Do not load binary data (core dumps, etc.) to greatly speed up
the GUI. They are just gibberish anyway.
* apport: Switch from apt_pkg to apt, add SourcePackage: to reports.
* apport-gtk: Use source package name for the Malone URL.
* debian/rules: Call setup.py install with --no-compile to not ship *.pyc in
debs.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:11:52 +0200
apport (0.2) edgy; urgency=low
* debian/apport.cron.daily: Do not produce error messages if 'find' does not
find any crash reports.
* problem_report.py: Support iterators, add test case.
* apport: Filter out trailing 0-byte from ProcCmdline.
* Add a simple GTK frontend, ship it in new package apport-gtk.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:52:33 +0200
apport (0.1) edgy; urgency=low
* Initial release. This package implements the client backend part of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedProblemReports.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:21:10 +0200
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