Crash in whoopsie itself shows application alert instead of internal error alert

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

apport 1.94.1-0ubuntu2, whoopsie 0.1.19, Ubuntu Pangolin

When whoopsie itself crashes, the alert says "Sorry, the application whoopsie has closed unexpectedly."

whoopsie is not an application, it's a part of the Ubuntu system, so the "Sorry, Ubuntu has experienced an internal error" should appear instead.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 TERM=linux

Evan, do you know why whoopsie has a $TERM? It's certainly not being started by the user through a terminal, does it?

[Evan (ev)]

Something is setting it before whoopsie starts. Sticking a getenv right at the top of main returns the TERM variable.

[Evan (ev)]

Well, damn:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~upstart-devel/upstart/trunk/view/head:/init/job_class.h#L121

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

How about requiring SHELL in addition to TERM?

$ sudo cat /proc/`pidof whoopsie`/environ | xargs -0n1
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin
TERM=linux
CRASH_DB_URL=https://daisy.ubuntu.com
RUNLEVEL=2
PREVLEVEL=N
UPSTART_EVENTS=runlevel
UPSTART_JOB=whoopsie
UPSTART_INSTANCE=

That ought to at least work for such system daemons, and they don't have $SHELL. $SHELL is also a "safe" (i. e. non-sensitive) variable, so we keep that.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in trunk r2249.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.95-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.95-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream release:
    - apport-gtk, apport-kde: When reporting a "system crash", don't say "...
      of this program version", but "...of this type", as we don't show a
      program version in the initial dialog
      (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#error) (LP: #961065)
    - problem_report.py, write_mime(): Do not put a key inline if it is bigger
      than 1 kB, to guard against very long lines. (LP: #957326)
    - etc/cron.daily/apport: Do not remove whoopsie's *.upload* stamps every
      day, only if they are older than a week. whoopsie comes with its own
      cron job which deals with them. Thanks Steve Langasek. (LP: #957102)
    - report.py, mark_ignore(): Fix crash if executable went away underneath
      us. (LP: #961410)
    - apport-gtk: Do not compare current continue button label against a
      translated string. Instead just remember whether or not we can restart
      the application. (LP: #960439)
    - hookutils.py, command_output(): Add option to keep the locale instead of
      disabling it.
    - hookutils.py, command_output(): Actually make the "input" parameter
      work, instead of causing an eternal hang. Add tests for all possible
      modes of operation.
    - hooktuils.py: Change root_command_output() and
      attach_root_command_outputs() to disable translated messages
      (LC_MESSAGES=C) only as part of the command to be run, not already for
      the root prefix command. This will keep the latter (gksu, kdesudo, etc.)
      translated. (LP: #961659)
    - apport-gtk: Cut off text values after 4000 characters, as Gtk's TreeView
      does not get along well with huge values. KDE's copes fine, so continue
      to display the complete value there. (LP: #957062)
    - apport-gtk: Make details window resizable in bug reporting mode.
    - crashdb.py, known(): Check the address signature duplicate database if
      the symbolic signature exists, but did not find any result. (LP: #103083)
    - ui.py: Run anonymization after checking for duplicates, to prevent host
      or user names which look like hex numbers to corrupt the stack trace.
      (LP: #953104)
    - apport-gtk: Require an application to both have TERM and SHELL in its
      environment to consider it a command line application that was started
      by the user. (LP: #962130)
    - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py, _check_files_md5(): Fix double encoding,
      which caused UnicodeDecodeErrors on non-ASCII characters in an md5sum
      file. (LP: #953682)
    - apport-kde, apport-gtk: Only show "Relaunch" if the report has a
      ProcCmdline, otherwise we cannot restart it. (LP: #956173)
    - apport-gtk, apport-kde: Show the ExecutablePath while we're collecting
      data for the crash report. Thanks Evan Dandrea. (LP: #938707).
  * debian/copyright: Change to copyright format 1.0.
  * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3.

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: use main.log to determine UpgradeStatus not
    apt.log (LP: #886111)
 -- Martin Pitt <<email address hidden>...