The "List reported bugs" link doesn't show all reported bugs

[Tommy Trussell]

I asked Question #85581 and a respondent suggested I could use List reported bugs and other links on my own launchpad page. When I click the link https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~tommy-trussell/+reportedbugs I DON'T see all the bugs I have reported, nor even only the open bugs I have reported. One that is missing is Bug #430333 for example. Am I misunderstanding the purpose of the link?

[Karl Fogel (kfogel)]

By the way, this might be an easy fix. If you're a programmer, you could have a try at fixing it -- information on hacking Launchad is at https://dev.launchpad.net/, and you'd definitely be able to get help/mentoring from experienced Launchpad developers, especially for such a glaring bug.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

@ Tommy Trussell

I think the reason it's not appearing is because the affected projects (aka bug tasks) you reported for that bug - Ubuntu Netbook Remix and ubiquity - are both marked as Invalid. Invalid tasks are not shown in the default search pages; you need to do an advanced search to include those.

I'm going to mark this bug as Invalid too, but if you feel strongly that you should be able to see bugs for which the projects you've nominated are marked as Invalid, then please give details of your use case and mark it as New again.

By the way, this bug should appear in your subscribed bugs list, so it won't have completely dropped out of view.

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

@Gavin Panella: If you look again at Bug 430333 you will see that although the bug was marked invalid in UNR and Ubuquity, it IS still valid in grub2.

If you think the bug should not show up on my list even though it is valid in grub2, then I guess I do not understand why. Please explain!

Could the fact that it is disappearing for me mean that it might have also disappearing for the other folks who have looked at it? It is actually a grave bug -- the beta installer creates a totally trashed filesystem on that computer for some reason. Colin Watson helped me look at the symptoms over a couple of days.

P.S.: I am currently serving on a jury so I do not have time to follow up on this or bug 430333 at the moment.

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

P.S.: I had never tried "advanced search" before today -- thanks to the link to Bug 5977. Strangely, when I check all the boxes, whether or not I check the "hide duplicates" checkbox, the list shows two instances of Bug 490333, both marked invalid, and NOT that it has been marked valid in Grub2.

Is this a database problem? Is the bug's status in Grub2 not visible to anyone but me???

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

Regarding the results in comment #4 -- I can't duplicate that behavior, exactly. I am in a rush and I probably didn't notice I wasn't seeing all the rows on one page. I do see all three instances of Bug 490333 whether or not I have the "hide duplicates" checkbox checked, though of course that would be the expected behavior in this case because the rows I see are probably not DISTINCT from a SQL perspective.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

> @Gavin Panella: If you look again at Bug 430333 you will see that
> although the bug was marked invalid in UNR and Ubuquity, it IS still
> valid in grub2.
>
> If you think the bug should not show up on my list even though it is
> valid in grub2, then I guess I do not understand why. Please
> explain!

I haven't digged into the code, but I'm reasonably sure that the
reason it disappears is because all of the projects against which you
reported the bug (netbook-remix and ubiquity) are marked as
Invalid. In other words, this bug doesn't manifest or isn't present in
these projects. The page you requested was +reportedbugs, which looks
at those bugs you, er, reported, so it excludes this bug as no longer
relevant.

> Could the fact that it is disappearing for me mean that it might
> have also disappearing for the other folks who have looked at it? It
> is actually a grave bug -- the beta installer creates a totally
> trashed filesystem on that computer for some reason. Colin Watson
> helped me look at the symptoms over a couple of days.

The bug is still marked as New for grub2 in Ubuntu, which means that
this bug will still appear by default for people interested in that
package.

> P.S.: I had never tried "advanced search" before today -- thanks to
> the link to Bug 5977. Strangely, when I check all the boxes, whether
> or not I check the "hide duplicates" checkbox, the list shows two
> instances of Bug 490333, both marked invalid, and NOT that it has been
> marked valid in Grub2.

You see the bug once for each of the projects it's recorded as
affecting. It's a bit confusing, but it's not broken.

> Is this a database problem? Is the bug's status in Grub2 not visible
> to anyone but me???

Colin Watson add the grub2 in Ubuntu task to the bug, so he should be
able to see it at:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/+reportedbugs

But he can't! This smells bug-like to me; the search is probably
looking at the bug owner rather than the bug task[*] owner. I've filed
bug 451301 about this.

[* A "bug task" is the term than Launchpad uses - internally mostly -
   to refer to a manifestation of a bug in a project, distribution or
   package. In other words, each project, distribution or package
   shown in the table at the top of each bug page. Every bug has at
   least one bug task. ]

Colin will be able to see the bug on his related bugs page:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/~cjwatson

> Regarding the results in comment #4 -- I can't duplicate that
> behavior, exactly. I am in a rush and I probably didn't notice I
> wasn't seeing all the rows on one page. I do see all three instances
> of Bug 490333 whether or not I have the "hide duplicates" checkbox
> checked, though of course that would be the expected behavior in
> this case because the rows I see are probably not DISTINCT from a
> SQL perspective.

"Hide duplicates" hides bugs that are marked as duplicate reports -
i.e. someone else has already reported the bug - not repetitions like
you were seeing in the search.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Tommy, the problem with showing a bug report multiple times in a bug listing (and not even showing you that it is open anywhere!) is bug 1357.