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colorized output of unity_support_test causes problems for apport

Bug #716143 reported by Brian Murray on 2011-02-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #710630: apport hook AssertionError in __setitem__ when trying to assign None value. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Apport	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned
Nux	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
Unity	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
nux (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

While the output of unity_support_test is rather pretty the colorization causes a crash in apport when trying to add the output as an attachment to the bug report. I ended up having to work around this like this so:

                ust = command_output_quiet([
                    '/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test', '-p'])
                ust = ust.replace('\x1b','').replace('[0;38;48m','').replace('[1;32;48m','')
                report['UnitySupportTest'] = ust

This is rather terrible and arguably its a bug in apport, however looking at the output of unity_support_test it seems rather verbose and a quieter non-colorized version might make things easier.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: nux-tools 0.9.18-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-2.29-generic 2.6.38-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-2-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488
CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
Date: Wed Feb 9 13:58:58 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: nux

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-02-09:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Alex Launi (alexlauni) wrote on 2011-02-24:

This is definitely a bug in apport. Colorizing output in an xterm is totally legal, apport should not crash on that. Could you please attach a trace from apport and possibly your output of unity_support_test so that apport can be fixed?

Changed in nux:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in nux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

Martin Pitt (pitti) on 2011-02-25

Changed in apport:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-02-26:

The original crash can be found in bug 710630. I've tried recreating it now without success.

$ ubuntu-bug fglrx
hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_fglrx-installer.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 636, in add_hooks_info
    symb['add_info'](self, ui)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_fglrx-installer.py", line 428, in add_info
    attach_3d_info(report, ui)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//source_fglrx-installer.py", line 324, in attach_3d_info
    '/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 500, in __setitem__
    and (hasattr(v[0], 'isalnum') or hasattr(v[0], 'read'))))
AssertionError