This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.2-0ubuntu1
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apport (2.20.2-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium
[ Brian Murray ]
* data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: tag bug reports 'apport-hook-error' if they
have an attachment from an apport hook which crashed.
[ Martin Pitt ]
* New upstream release. Changes since our previous snapshot:
- Don't ignore OSError in Report.add_gdb_info(), as we do want to fail with
an
useful error message if gdb cannot be called in apport-retrace. Move the
catching to the UI as not having gdb installed is still fine for reporting
clients. (LP: #1579949)
- Show gdb error messages in Report.add_gdb_info() OSError exception when
gdb
fails. (LP: #1579897)
- hookutils, attach_root_command_outputs(): Return str again, like before
2.15.2. (LP: #1370259)
- Stop issuing "set architecture" gdb commands on ARM and Power; these only
applied to 32 bit platforms and are apparently not needed any more with
recent gdb versions. (LP: #1585702)
- Disable report.test_add_gdb_info_abort_libnih test case for now, as libnih
is broken under current Ubuntu (LP: #1580601)
-- Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:17:35
+0200
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579949
Title:
add_gdb_info hides OSErrors when running gdb during retracing
Status in Apport:
Fix Released
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
I've been trying to debug an issue with apport trunk and retracing
crashes from Xenial. Come to find out I was receiving an OSError when
running gdb (see bug 1579897) but didn't know it because of this code
in report.py's add_gdb_info.
721 # call gdb
722 try:
723 out = _command_output(gdb_cmd).decode('UTF-8',
errors='replace')
724 except OSError:
725 return
If _command_output tries to raise an OSError, it seems to me like we
shouldn't just return in line 725.
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