/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all:PermissionError:/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all@137:collect_info:process_report:mark_report_upload

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The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport. This problem was most recently seen with version 2.14.4-0ubuntu2, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/1bba7b68c8ff3370890bc9ebeefcfd7ec0287988 contains more details.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's the Traceback from the crash:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 137, in <module>
    stamps = collect_info()
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 88, in collect_info
    res = process_report(r)
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 71, in process_report
    apport.fileutils.mark_report_upload(report)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 119, in mark_report_upload
    with open(upload, 'a'):
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/crash/_usr_bin_unity8.32011.upload'

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

And another instance of the crash: https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/061c82134bbaf2bbb84838156751fa4272df83c9

[Chris Gagnon (chris.gagnon)]

I think this might be invalid, was running /usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all without being root.

[Chris Gagnon (chris.gagnon)]

I was too quick with invalid, it should handle the error with "you must be root to upload this file"

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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