Public bug reported:
Hi,
plasmashell crashed on my system, and when apport tried to upload the
problem report, 2 Python errors occurred:
TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str
Here is more context:
# journalctl -b | grep whoopsie-upload-all
Mar 30 16:54:18 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: INFO:root:Collecting info
for /var/crash/_usr_bin_plasmashell.1000.crash...
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: ERROR: hook
/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/generic.py crashed:
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: Traceback (most recent call
last):
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 314, in _run_hook
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]:
symb["add_info"](report, ui)
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/generic.py", line 70, in add_info
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: for lib in
re.finditer(r"\s(/[^ ]+\.so[.0-9]*)$", report["ProcMaps"], re.M):
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]:
~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/lib/python3.14/re/__init__.py", line 285, in finditer
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: return
_compile(pattern, flags).finditer(string)
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
Mar 30 16:54:20 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: TypeError: cannot use a
string pattern on a bytes-like object
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: Traceback (most recent call
last):
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 246, in <module>
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: main()
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: ~~~~^^
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 228, in main
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: stamps = collect_info()
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 162, in collect_info
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: res = process_report(r)
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 112, in process_report
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: r.add_gdb_info()
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 1057, in add_gdb_info
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: addr_signature =
self.crash_signature_addresses()
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 1797, in
crash_signature_addresses
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: if
self["ProcMaps"].startswith("Error: "):
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
Mar 30 16:54:22 vougeot whoopsie-upload-all[12777]: TypeError: startswith first
arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: apport 2.33.1-0ubuntu7
Uname: Linux 6.19.10-zabbly+ x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.33.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CrashReports:
644:1000:110:0:2026-03-30 16:51:25.793400247 +0200:2026-03-30
16:51:25.793400247
+0200:/var/crash/_usr_lib_x86_64-linux-gnu_libexec_drkonqi.1000.upload
640:1000:110:1561169:2026-03-30 16:51:25.793400247 +0200:2026-03-30
16:51:25.820400248
+0200:/var/crash/_usr_lib_x86_64-linux-gnu_libexec_drkonqi.1000.crash
640:1000:110:48950892:2026-03-30 16:51:26.564400251 +0200:2026-03-30
16:54:18.693028271 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_bin_plasmashell.1000.crash
640:0:110:24050:2026-03-30 16:54:22.381500008 +0200:2026-03-30
16:54:22.380028258
+0200:/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_whoopsie-upload-all.0.crash
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Mar 30 16:55:51 2026
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2026-03-29 (1 days ago)
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute
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