/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all:FileNotFoundError:process_report:add_gdb_info:gdb_command:write:/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all@161:collect_info:process_report

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The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport. This problem was most recently seen with version 2.17.3-0ubuntu4, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/48d152fc0919e2c3acb651c5b628bd80a55355c4 contains more details.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It looks like the write function in the CompressedValue class of problem_report.py doesn't do any error handling if we run out of space.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 79, in process_report
    r.add_gdb_info()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 677, in add_gdb_info
    gdb_cmd = self.gdb_command(rootdir)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 1522, in gdb_command
    self['CoreDump'].write(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 78, in write
    file.write(block)
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The library function isn't supposed to catch this kind of error, as there is no sensible course of action there. It could be intercepted by whoopsie-upload-all, and either be replaced with a less "crashy" error message, or perhaps just ignored.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in trunk: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/2990

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.18-0ubuntu9

---------------
apport (2.18-0ubuntu9) wily; urgency=medium

  * Revert changes to data/package_hook to include the package version. This
    just hides the problem that somewhere during whoopsie add_package_info()
    is not called. (See LP #1485787)
  * packaging-apt-dpkg.py, is_distro_package(): If there is no origin and
    /etc/system-image/channel.ini exists, assume the package is from a
    read-only system image and accept it as distro package. With this we don't
    need /var/lib/apt/lists/ indexes any more just to confirm the origin.
    (LP: #1489410)
  * Merge fixes from trunk:
    - whoopsie-upload-all: Intercept OSError too (e. g. "No space left on
      device"). (LP: #1476258)
    - apport-retrace: Only consider the file name of a source file, not its
      path; the latter often contains parts like "../" or directories which are
      specific to a build machine. This fixes most broken StacktraceSource
      results. (LP: #1462491)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:35:54 +0200