Ubuntu
casper package

only keep apport running for installer crashes

Bug #593606 reported by Martin Pitt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
casper (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: casper

We currently disable apport on stable releases for various reasons: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport#How%20to%20enable%20apport

However, casper re-enables it on the live system, mainly to be able to report installer crashes. However, we should only limit that to installer failures, since reporting general desktop-ish crashes is moot. Packages are almost guaranteed to be out of date, which causes confusion and frustration.

Tags: pet-bug

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lp:ubuntu/precise/casper
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

One practical possibility would be to only allow Python crashes, no coredump ones.

Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
importance: Undecided → Medium
bennett swain (bennettws30)
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Martin Pitt (pitti)
tags: added: pet-bug
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Package installation failures would be useful too.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Package installation failures are already being reported independently of /etc/default/apport (which is really a bug, though).

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Committed support for whitelisting in apport trunk r2123.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) → nobody
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

For casper we need to modify the hook to whitelist /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity if apport is disabled by default.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

apport (1.91-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
   [...]
    - Support /etc/apport/whitelist.d/ similarly to /etc/apport/blacklist.d/,
      for cases like installer environments where only crashes of a few selected
      programs should be reported.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:56:00 +0100

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package casper - 1.300

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casper (1.300) precise; urgency=low

  * 33enable_apport_crashes: If enabling apport (i. e. on a released Ubuntu
    versions), only report crashes for Ubiquity. Do not report general
    desktop-ish crashes, for the same reasons why we disable them for
    Ubuntu releases after installation. (LP: #593606)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:12:26 +0100

Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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