documentation describes non-included ProcCmdline field

Bug #1018373 reported by Joshua Taylor
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apport (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
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Bug Description

The documentation, in the "Process specific data fields" section, describes a required ProcCmdline field:

doc/data-format.tex; line 209:
    \item [ProcCmdline:] (required) Contents of \verb!/proc/pid/cmdline!

but according to the changelog, this field is not included in bug reports since 2008-02-06:

2008-02-06 Martin Pitt <email address hidden>
 ...
 * apport/ui.py,
 * debian/changelog: [1048] * apport/ui.py: Do not include ProcCmdline
 in bug reports, since these are not ack'ed by the user and might
 contain sensitive data. (LP: #132800)

The field is still used internally for restarting the process, but isn't included in the bug reports, and mention of the required ProcCmdline field should be removed.

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Joshua Taylor (joshuaaaron+lp) wrote :

I've been playing with apport a bit more, and it seems like reports that I generate without crashing a process, e.g., by

apport-cli -f -P <pid>

don't have a ProcCmdline field, whereas reports generated automatically when an application crashes (or is killed, e.g., with a SIGSEGV) do.

Is this intended?

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for apport (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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