apport-cli crashed with IOError in mark_report_seen()
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
apport (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apport
I was trying to submit a crash report about gparted and used what I think is the incorrect command:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apport-cli _usr_bin_
then I received a crash notification about apport-cli.
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
600:999:
600:0:
Date: Fri Sep 28 20:30:18 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apport-cli
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: apport 0.97
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apport-cli --crash-
ProcCwd: /home/ubuntu
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/
SourcePackage: apport
Title: apport-cli crashed with IOError in mark_report_seen()
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 20:03:18 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This is a simple permission error. You need to run it through sudo to process crashes from root process. This is a measure to not leak potentially sensitive data from root processes to users.