update alsa/audio related infomation collection code in apport

[Yuan-Chen Cheng]

what need to change

1. try to use /usr/sbin/alsa-info before try /usr/share/alsa-base/alsa-info.sh (weird for me that two copy of alsa-info co-exists, but anyway)
2. add pa-info (exist after focal)
3. add ucm2 directory. (exist after focal)

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

By adding in a call to '/usr/bin/pa-info' in apport/hookutils.py there ends up being duplicate information in the apport created report as '/usr/bin/pa-info' calls 'alsa-info' which was already included in the report. How do you feel about removing the calls to 'alsa-info' and just using 'pa-info'?

Thanks!

[Hui Wang (hui.wang)]

the pa-info already includes calling the alsa-info.sh, it is ok to remove the alsa-info.

But it is better to keep the alsa-info, since the log of alsa-info is cleaner than the log of pa-info, pa-info includes many pulseaudio level logs. And If we want to exchange the log with upstream developers, we often send alsa-info.txt since it is possible that other Linux distributions don't use pulseaudio as the audio server, they only need a clean alsa-info.txt without pulseaudio logs.

[Yuan-Chen Cheng (ycheng-twn)]

Is there a quick and clean way to extract alsa-info from output of pa-info?

[Hui Wang (hui.wang)]

Reply #7, no, I don't know how to extract alsa-info from output of pa-info.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've gone ahead and uploaded this for Groovy but renamed the key pa-info to PaInfo so that it is consistent with the naming of other keys.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu47

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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu47) groovy; urgency=medium

  [ Tiago Stürmer Daitx ]
  * apport/ui.py: improve message when origin check fails as it can be
    caused by empty apt list - candidate is limited to dpkg and we can't
    tell where it came from. (LP: #1775219)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:02:17 -0700