Public bug reported:
Running Ubuntu 13.04 Beta off a stick on a Lenovo S206.
On reporting a network failure, I was advised by one of your colleagues
failure to include the output of a apport-collect.
This was a rolling failure, due to poor packaging and design of the
application.
Packaging
========
On a beta release, jeez -- you should make it *easy* to report bugs.
That would involve making sure all the bug-analyzing packages are *installed*.
But they aren't.
The apport-collect command first requires
python-apport, then python-problem-report.
which aren't installed.
But without a network.... OK from another machine, download them, put them on a
stick.
carry them back, use dpkg to instlall them. Try to run apport-collect again.
But now apport-collect has run-time dependencies that aren't installed. OK so
go
to the other machine, find those dependences and their own dependencies, repeat.
And now... it still isn't going to work, due to the next class of
problems.
Design problem
============
The whole thing (apport etc.) assumes a network is present in order to operate.
This is of course just silly if the problem in question is that the network
doesn't function.
Generally apport seems to be pretty much useless without a network.
This could be *SO MUCH BETTER* if it simply offered to save a file containing
the bug report, when it can't report by network. Or if it just informed the
user
where to find the file.
INSTEAD, apport-collect does this:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apport-collect 1169755
ERROR: connecting to Launchpad failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
You can reset the credentials by removing the file
"/home/ubuntu/.cache/apport/launchpad.credentials"
There is no file launchpad.credentials. (I also tried the same thing as
root with similar results.)
Cheers! Better luck next time!
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Apport total fail in Ubuntu 13.04 beta sans network
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