$ apport-unpack _usr_bin_gjs-console.1000.crash Guest79
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apport-unpack", line 74, in <module>
pr.extract_keys(f, bin_keys, dir)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 270, in
extract_keys
[item for item, element in b64_block.items() if element is False])
ValueError: ['separator'] has no binary content
... is what brought me here.
This is the kind of bug I do not understand why it does not get higher priority.
It is a - seemingly easy to fix - bug in a core Ubuntu utility, which is
relevant for bug reporting and analysis, thus a tool with a potential to
improve the distributions' quality on a relevant scale. It would seem like it
should be of central interest to Canonical that these tools receive much
development attention and are of high quality.
To the contrary, apport is in a sad state (see its bug tracker), and has
been for a decade, and unless it gets serious quality time, it seems
wrong to continue to waste massive (scale) CPU cycles and prompt users
about (not) reporting crashes and bugs at all.
Sorry for using this bug tracker as a means of providing generic
software quality feedback - I know I should not, but I also know other
places would not get developer attention, or feedback would be treated
more in a PR (and I do not mean pull request) way, while here, there is
at least a bit of a chance for quality feedback.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780985
Title:
apport-unpack crashed with ValueError in extract_keys():
['ProcEnviron'] has no binary content
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Sometimes apport creates a crash file with an empty field for
'ProcEnviron'. In that situation, I want to be able to continue
extracting fields from the crash file rather than aborting.
Workaround is to add some made up values for ProcEnviron in the crash file,
such as " LANG=en_US.UTF-8
".
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: apport 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportLog:
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Jul 10 08:02:35 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-unpack
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-27 (73 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/apport-unpack
/var/crash/_usr_bin_kdeinit5.1000.crash crash_files/
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal, 3.6.5-3
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-unpack',
'/var/crash/_usr_bin_kdeinit5.1000.crash', 'crash_files/']
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal,
2.7.15~rc1-1
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-unpack crashed with ValueError in extract_keys():
['ProcEnviron'] has no binary content
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm audio bluetooth cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev
plugdev sambashare scanner sudo systemd-journal tty vboxusers video wireshark
modified.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2018-05-18T07:41:41.681859
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