Ubuntu
apport package

  1. Bug #1339663
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1339663

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: [Bug 1339663] Re: ubuntu-bug fails with "whoopsie-upload-all: error: unrecognized arguments" when /var/lib/apport/autoreport exists

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 08:24:22AM -0000, Jarno Suni wrote:
> /usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all is part of apport package. But
> what package is responsible for /var/lib/apport/autoreport and should
> the file have some content?

apport-noui creates /var/lib/apport/autoreport. The file needs no
content its existence indicates that whoopsie should automatically
upload crashes to the Error Tracker.

> P.S. I had to use sudo mkdir /var/lib/apport; sudo touch /var/lib/apport/autoreport
> to create the file.

You should only be encountering this issue, not being able to use
ubuntu-bug, if you have apport-noui installed. Do you?

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Brian Murray