crash with ValueError in load()

[Sebastien Bacher]

Binary package hint: apport

The retracer duplicate finder was crashing on bug #204316

"problem_report.py", line 139, in load
    (key, value) = line.split(':', 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack"

The functions seems to expect lines to start with a space or to be splitable, in this case the description had a copy of the apport informations without the space which created the confusion

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Right, it should just ignore such broken bugs, since without leading spaces it's utterly hard to parse automatically.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Bug 211899 appears to be related.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in bzr head, rolled out to the retracers.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 0.110

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apport (0.110) intrepid; urgency=low

  * apport/chroot.py: In the test suite, copy some system binaries/libraries
    into a fakechroot and exercise a lot of standard shell commands (cp, ln
    -s, rm, rm -r, mkdir, echo, chmod, chown, etc.) with absolute/relative
    paths. This reproduces the total breakage of rm'ing, chmod'ing, and
    chown'ing absolute paths in hardy fakechroots.
  * bin/crash-digger: Intercept exceptions when downloading crash reports for
    duplicate checking, so that the retracer does not crash on malformed bug
    reports. (LP: #205178)
  * apport/packaging.py: Introduce a new function enabled() which reports
    whether Apport should create crash reports. Signal crashes are controlled
    by /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern, but we need that to control whether
    reports for Python, package, or kernel crashes are generated.
  * backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Provide implementation for
    PackageInfo.enabled() for Debian/Ubuntu by evaluating /etc/default/apport.
    Add various test cases for different configuration files and absent files.
  * apport_python_hook.py: Do not create reports if Apport is disabled (in
    /etc/default/apport). (LP: #222260)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sat, 17 May 2008 12:44:21 +0200