I believe this is because that broadcom-sta-dkms is run as root (thus created a crash file at /var/crash owned as root) but you tried to read it as a normal user? If it is the case then it's not crash but an error that you should run apport-kde as root in order to process that crash file.
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1118167 Title: apport-kde crashed with PermissionError in thread_collect_info(): [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/crash/broadcom-sta- dkms.0.crash' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1118167/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs