ubuntu-bug doesn't check if the argument is a program associated with a package
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
I type
Alt-F2 ubuntu-bugs VirtualBox
apport says Application not installed !
But when I just type
ubuntu-bugs VirtualBox
ubuntu starts VirtualBox (so it DOES know it's installed)
Since upgarding from 12.04 to 14.04 to 16.04 LTS VirtualBox locks up on the machine completely, I can't kill any processes cleanly (even as root equivalent) so I have to log out (attempt repeatedly) or mostly I need to do a console shutdown - r 0
I have reported this to Oracle VirtualBox, and have lots of info I can supply to help isolate the bug which I am well on way to isolating, but my question here is: Is there an alternate method (documented I may have missed) to report bug with VirtualBox (or any app) that crashes / fails to work with apport?
Thanks for any help!
Regards,
Phil
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-docs 16.04.4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-83-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jul 9 21:23:35 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-13 (1730 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2017-07-07 (2 days ago)
affects: | ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) → apport (Ubuntu) |
Thanks for reporting.
First things, it should be "ubuntu-bug", not -bugs. Secondly, it looks like report a bug based on a program name, you need to enter the whole path, i.e. "ubuntu-bug /usr/bin/ VirtualBox" . (I am not sure if this is expected, hopefully someone can confirm/deny) Alternatively report against the package name, which would be virtualbox in lowercase letters, assuming it is the package from the Ubuntu archives.
You mention Oracle Virtualbox in your post, so I am not sure if you have the package from the Ubuntu archive, or installed from Oracle.