Comment 21 for bug 1427600

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Re: [Bug 1427600] Re: apport-unpack: ValueError: ['UserGroups'] has no binary content

On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 06:03:38AM -0000, Nicholas Schell wrote:
> Latest fix filling in 'N/A' for absent groups is working, apport-unpack
> is no longer throwing stacktrace when prcoessing the report. I still
> don't understand why primary groups are ignored, but the important thing
> is the reports are processable without errors now.

The reason primary groups are not included is because apport tries to
exclude some information for privacy reasons and that includes user and
group names.

> This might be a totally separate issue, but will it be possible to
> backport the 'N/A' fix to bionic?

Its possible but not very likely. Could you explain your use case for
using apport-unpack?

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Brian Murray