[apport] oem-config crashed with IOError in cleanup()

[fromport]

Binary package hint: oem-config

installed oem config, logged in,from terminal
sudo oem-config
choose keyboard/location (time is wrong)
and while entering primary user data it barfs

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 30 15:32:39 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/oem-config
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: oem-config 1.12
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: python /usr/sbin/oem-config
ProcCwd: /home/oem
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/oem-config']
SourcePackage: oem-config
Uname: Linux unubut 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[fromport (ubuntu-dth)]

Time was right (time is flying when you're having fun ;-)
I upgraded the machine (aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade)
reboot with latest kernel/xserver etc but still no go.
Installed strace and output is added to this bug report

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Are you sure you're running oem-config as root (with sudo)? The crash dump indicates that you're actually running it as the oem user.

(Yes, oem-config should fail more gracefully in this case.)

[Danny (dth)]

Quoting Colin Watson (<email address hidden>):
> Are you sure you're running oem-config as root (with sudo)? The crash
> dump indicates that you're actually running it as the oem user.
> (Yes, oem-config should fail more gracefully in this case.)

I tried both:

sudo oem-config
and

sudo -s
oem-config

Both gave me a crash

Danny

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It might have been a different crash from this one, though. Feel free to report that separately.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

oem-config (1.14) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Add an apport hook to attach /var/log/oem-config.log.
  * Strip binaries.
  * Print usage message and exit if any non-option arguments are supplied to
    oem-config; suggest oem-config-prepare (LP: #105940).
  * Update Japanese keyboard layout handling to match console-setup
    1.7ubuntu18, which uses jp(latin),jp by default (LP: #63915).
  * Teach oem-config-prepare to escalate privileges itself using gksudo,
    kdesu, etc. as appropriate, rather than requiring it to be invoked using
    sudo.
  * Add a desktop icon to the oem user's desktop to run oem-config-prepare
    (LP: #41698).
  * Display an error dialog and exit if running as non-root (LP: #99211).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup 1.15ubuntu1,
    localechooser 1.38ubuntu1, tzsetup 1:0.17, user-setup 1.14ubuntu1.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 17 May 2007 11:43:03 +0100