package_hook should disallow filing some bugs

[Brian Murray]

Binary package hint: apport

I've seen some apport-package bug reports recently that contain the following lines:

Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (2.6.27-7.16) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs is disabled since running on a live CD
Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic to initrd.img.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic (2.6.27-9.19) ...

It'd be helpful if apport were to detect that part in the log (update-initramfs is disabled) and then prevent the bug from being filled in Launchpad.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Brian,

Launchpad Bug Tracker [2009-02-19 17:43 -0000]:
> It'd be helpful if apport were to detect that part in the log (update-
> initramfs is disabled) and then prevent the bug from being filled in
> Launchpad.

I agree. Do you have an example bug number, so that I can test it
properly?

Thanks,

Martin
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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Silly me, I should have added the bug in the beginning. Both bug 292159 and bug 292136 are similar although they are on a usb drive.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

IMHO this should become a bug pattern on

  SourcePackage: linux
  DpkgTerminalLog.txt: ^update-initramfs is disabled

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Tested with:

# Download #292911 into a .crash file:
$ python -c "from apport.crashdb import get_crashdb; get_crashdb(None).download(292911).write(open('/tmp/linux.crash', 'w'))"
# Process it:
/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk -c /tmp/linux.crash

I added a bug pattern for this crash: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-bugcontrol/apport/ubuntu-bugpatterns/revision/17

I also had to fix the handling of bug patterns in apport itself, apparently people.ubuntu.com changed behaviour for 404:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-core-dev/apport/ubuntu/revision/1266

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 0.134

---------------
apport (0.134) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/local/apport-collect: Do not collect information for closed
    tasks. Thanks for Brian Murray for the initial patch! (LP: #331839)
  * apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py, download(): Download
    DpkgTerminalLog.txt attachment as well.
  * apport/report.py: If downloading a nonexisting bug pattern file
    name succeeds and returns a HTML snippet with "404 Not Found",
    consider this as failure. This repairs falling back to source
    package names. (LP: #328751)
  * apport/hookutils.py: Replace tabs with spaces.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:22:15 +0100