Public bug reported: oem-config removes the temporary user account, but its binaries will outlive this. In a recent case, indicator-session was crashing and in turn causing apport to crash while it attempted to look up the ignore file for that user:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/5670896/ ERROR: apport (pid 19818) Tue Apr 2 16:28:06 2013: Unhandled exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 369, in <module> if info.check_ignored(): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 955, in check_ignored dom = self._get_ignore_dom() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 892, in _get_ignore_dom ifpath = os.path.expanduser(_ignore_file) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/posixpath.py", line 261, in expanduser userhome = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid()).pw_dir ** Affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1163453 Title: signal crashes fail when the user has been removed prior to crash To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1163453/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs