This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.4-0ubuntu3
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apport (2.4-0ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low
* data/general/ubuntu.py: modify regualr expressions for determining which
package installation failures to gather /etc/default/grub for
(LP: #1006633)
-- Brian Murray <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:48:49 -0700
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006633
Title:
should collect /etc/default/grub from package install failures due to
update-grub failing
Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “apport” source package in Precise:
In Progress
Bug description:
[Impact]
Apport does not inclue an important configuration file for determining the
root cause of errors for some package installation failures. Since the
majority of our bug reports come from stable releases it would be good to
release the update to apport to Precise. Additionally, if we ask people to
manually add /etc/default/grub they would have to manually remove any username
and password infromation from it. Instead with the apport hook it is done
automatically.
[Test Case]
1) Modify /etc/default/grub by removing the final " from the quiet splash
line so you have "quiet splash instead of "quiet splash".
2) Execute apt-get install --reinstall memtest86+
3) Observe package installation failure
With the version from -proposed there should be an attachment called
EtcDefaultGrub which contains the contents of your /etc/default/grub
file. You will see this in the resulting apport dialog.
[Regression Potential]
Its possible that something is wrong with the regular expression that
searches DpkgTerminalLog and we won't actually receive /etc/default/grub.
However, this is working in Quantal so is unlikely.
Package installation failures frequently happen due to configuration
errors in /etc/default/grub which are encountered when running update-
grub. It'd be good if apport would to collect /etc/default/grub using
attach_default_grub from hookutils.py to collect this file so we can
see what Ubuntu users are doing wrong.
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