incomplete crash files getting uploaded to the error tracker
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Looking at some crash reports in the Ubuntu Error Tracker, I saw a couple that there were odd because they were missing the DistroRelease data.
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That error was reported at 2014-08-09 06:52:21 (b6579caa-
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The second OOPS has all the data collected including Dependencies, and DistroRelease. whoopsie should only upload the .crash file if there is a .upload file so it seems likely that apport created the .upload file prematurely. Although, for that to be the case then apport would have to modify the .upload file again such that whoopsie noticed it. Regardless, there is something odd going on.
I found a second example too:
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summary: |
- apport seems to be creating .upload files before data collection is - complete + incomplete crash files getting uploaded to the error tracker |
Looking at apport's code I don't see anywhere the report file is written to more than once.