apport-collect crashed with AssertionError in __init__()

[Leandro]

Binary package hint: apport

These were the errors in the screen:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 101, in <module>
    crashdb = CrashDatabase(None, None, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 75, in __init__
    assert 'project' in options, 'Need to have either "project" or "distro" option'
AssertionError: Need to have either "project" or "distro" option
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 100, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL), 'w')
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/crash/_usr_bin_apport-collect.1000.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 101, in <module>
    crashdb = CrashDatabase(None, None, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 75, in __init__
    assert 'project' in options, 'Need to have either "project" or "distro" option'
AssertionError: Need to have either "project" or "distro" option

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashReports:
 600:1000:1000:5612937:2009-10-06 21:30:58.518826000 -0300:2009-10-06 21:35:24.015485768 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_totem.1000.crash
 600:114:121:929535:2009-10-07 20:48:47.664007000 -0300:2009-10-07 20:48:48.664007000 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_metacity.114.crash
 600:1000:1000:219830:2009-10-11 22:16:46.880511000 -0300:2009-10-11 22:16:47.880511000 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_lib_indicator-session_indicator-status-service.1000.crash
 600:0:0:7420:2009-10-14 23:17:51.027067000 -0300:2009-10-14 23:19:44.315057953 -0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_apport-collect.0.crash
Date: Wed Oct 14 23:17:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-collect
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: apport 1.9.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apport-collect 451833
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/apport-collect', '451833']
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-collect crashed with AssertionError in __init__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Leandro (leandromartinez98)]

This continues to occur after a full upgrade now.

I must say that yesterday X crashed during an update, and I had to run dkpg --configure -a manually
to restore the update. I don't know if some package may have been corrupted by this. I tried
reinstalling all apport packages, but the error persists. Which other package can cause this
problem?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Which package did you try to file a bug against? Does this also happen if you try "ubuntu-bug apport"? (Please don't actually file that bug, just see whether it brings you to Launchpad without crashing).

Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, sorry, "apport-collect".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.9.3-0ubuntu2

---------------
apport (1.9.3-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/local/apport-collect: Instantiate Launchpad crash database with
    "distro = ubuntu", to satisfy an assertion introduced in the previous
    release. (LP: #451838)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:12:21 +0200