Comment 5 for bug 994685

Hi Dave,

Running apport-collect on the terminal results in an error dump, and the graphical apport window that pops up stalls with a twirly indicator.

ubuntu@201101-6957:~$ apport-collect 994685
No packages found matching alsa-driver.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 494, in <lambda>
    GLib.idle_add(lambda: self.collect_info(on_finished=self.ui_update_view))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 861, in collect_info
    icthread.exc_raise()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 34, in run
    self._retval = self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 74, in thread_collect_info
    report.add_package_info(package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 225, in add_package_info
    self['SourcePackage'] = packaging.get_source(package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 116, in get_source
    if self._apt_pkg(package).installed:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 87, in _apt_pkg
    raise ValueError('package does not exist')
ValueError: package does not exist