launchpad is claiming my report has one error, but is not flagging what that error is

[Michael Bloom]

launchpad is claiming my report has one error, but is not flagging what that error is

I would try to enclose the report that it has the problem with, but it would flag that report as having one error, too, without flagging the error itself, so I don't know how to be specific about it.

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. While running an Ubuntu kernel (not a mainline or third-party kernel) please enter the following command in a terminal window:

apport-collect 1800887

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Michael Bloom (mabloom)]

You may choose to cancel this bug. Or better, you may choose to fix (or at least warn about) the problem I am about to describe.

The cause of the difficulty resulted from my having originally entered: "Network Manager and/or ntpd" under "In what package did you find this bug?". The page had flagged that, so per recommendation, I clicked "I don't know instead".

However, because I did not erase the words "Network Manager and/or ntpd", when I clicked "Submit", the web page decided that I should have clicked on the button next to the words that I did not erase, so it re-clicked it for me and unclicked "I don't know", which re-introduced the page's recognition that I had made an error.

Because I had explicitly clicked "I don't know", it hadn't occurred to me to consider that clicking "Submit" would have caused my most recently chosen answer to the "package" question to have been reverted to my previous answer by the page itself, on my behalf. I had already fixed the error I had made on that part of the page (or so I thought), so when another error was flagged, I looked everywhere else on the page to try to figure out what the page was complaining about.

I understand that this may have arisen out of an idiosyncrasy in the implementation, but with that being the case, it would take only a few additional characters of code to detect what it could consider to be an "incomplete change" and provide some warning of its inability to handle the manner in which a human would normally and naturally be expected to correct the error I had originally made and corrected.

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