hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/medibuntu.py crashed

[mdmcginn]

me@here:/var/crash$ ubuntu-bug apport-hooks-medibuntu
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/medibuntu.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 195, in _run_hook
    exec(compile(fd.read(), hook, 'exec'), symb)
  File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/medibuntu.py", line 17
    except ValueError, e:
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Happens each time I run ubuntu-bug.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

What's the Ubuntu release used? Which version of the apport hook is installed?

[mdmcginn (mcweb)]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 27 06:22:18 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-23 (33 days ago)

My version of medibuntu.py is copyright 2009.

[mdmcginn (mcweb)]

me@here:/usr/share/apport/general-hooks$ cat medibuntu.py
'''Send crashes to Medibuntu if the package comes from Medibuntu.

Copyright (C) 2009 Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden>
Author: Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for
the full text of the license.
'''

def add_info(report):
    try:
        if report['Package'].split()[1].find('medibuntu') != -1:
            report['CrashDB'] = 'medibuntu'
    except ValueError, e:
        return

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

This bug has been fixed a while ago. Please upgrade the apport-hooks-medibuntu package.

[mdmcginn (mcweb)]

The latest version available to me still has the bug:

me@here:~$ sudo apt-get install apport-hooks-medibuntu
[sudo] password for michael:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apport-hooks-medibuntu is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
me@here:~$ ubuntu-bug nautilus
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/medibuntu.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 195, in _run_hook
    exec(compile(fd.read(), hook, 'exec'), symb)
  File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/medibuntu.py", line 17
    except ValueError, e:
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

Did you enable medibuntu again after the upgrade to 12.10? Ubuntu disables the third party repositories for the upgrade.