ubuntu-bug fails just after installing apt update has never been done

Bug #1899628 reported by Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
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apport (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

Doing the ISO testing in a machine, that I did it staying offline.

After installing, I connected and noticed a bug I wanted to report in ubuntu-drivers-common, but doing `ubuntu-bug` on it failed:

This does not seem to be an official Ubuntu Package. Please retry after updating the indexes of available packages...

https://i.imgur.com/fnDz6vf.png

This is true as per:

$ apt-cache policy ubuntu-drivers-common
ubuntu-drivers-common:
  Installed: 1:0.8.5.4
  Candidate: 1:0.8.5.4
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.8.5.4 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

However, apport should probably trigger an apt-update in such case first instead of failing, or adding a button to do this easily and then proceed with the report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu49
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-22.23-generic 5.8.14
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu49
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 13 14:19:30 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Beta amd64 (20201013.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1899628

tags: added: iso-testing
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This error message was actually recently changed and now recommends updating your apt indexes. I gather you'd like to to do more and update the indexes for you?

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

Yeah, or at least to have a button to start updating, so that it allows then to proceed.

Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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