crash while reporting firefox bug: exception in apport hook in install_ini_parser (via minidom.parse(rdf_file))

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: apport

Hello!

I've tried reporting a bug about Firefox using ubuntu-bug, and I noticed the error message below. However, the bug report did open in FF, and I continued on that page to report bug #531987. (In case someone might take a look at that and see if anything's missing among the automatically-gathered info.)

bogdanb@mabelode:~$ ubuntu-bug firefox
hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks//firefox.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 618, in add_hooks_info
    symb['add_info'](self)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//firefox.py", line 183, in add_info
    extension_summary += extension_summary_helper(extensions_dict['local_extensions'], 'Local Extensions')
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//firefox.py", line 80, in extension_summary_helper
    summary += ''' %s\n''' % install_ini_parser(extension)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks//firefox.py", line 52, in install_ini_parser
    dom_doc = minidom.parse(rdf_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
    parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 48, column 28

ProblemType: Bug
ApportLog:

Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
 644:116:4:1453:2010-03-02 02:21:00.000000000 +0100:2010-03-02 02:21:01.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/linux-image-2.6.32-14-generic.103912.crash
 600:1000:1000:921109:2010-03-02 14:11:25.000000000 +0100:2010-03-02 14:11:26.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_lib_gnome-panel_wnck-applet.1000.crash
 644:116:4:1930:2010-03-01 14:14:15.000000000 +0100:2010-03-01 14:14:16.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/linux-image-2.6.32-14-generic.139028.crash
 600:1000:1000:15396227:2010-03-02 14:16:49.000000000 +0100:2010-03-02 14:16:50.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_yelp.1000.crash
 600:1000:1000:1435423:2010-03-03 14:52:12.000000000 +0100:2010-03-03 14:52:13.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_nautilus-sendto.1000.crash
Date: Thu Mar 4 17:05:07 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apport 1.12.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic x86_64

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

BTW, I notice in that report (bug #531987) there's a line for “abroswer N/A”; I suppose it should read “abrowser N/A”.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Thank you for your bug report.

This is a bug in the Firefox Apport hook (which collects data for Apport).

In /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/firefox.py the exception from "dom_doc = minidom.parse(rdf_file)" should get caught, as far as I can see, and a note about a non-well-formed extension added to the apport info.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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