Impact
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If automatic crash reporting is enabled and apport-autoreport.service starts before whoopsie on boot then crash reports that happened during shutdown or start up will not be automatically uploaded to the error tracker.
Test Case
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1) install apport-noui
2) sudo service apport stop
3) modify /usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all to exit(1) thereby recreating the situation where whoopsie isn't running. I did this by copying lines 159,160 to 161,162 and unindenting them. N.B. this isn't necessary if you are on a system where whoopsie is starting after apport.
4) touch /var/crash/my.crash
5) reboot
5) run 'systemctl status apport-autoreport.service' and observe it failed because whoopsie isn't running
When testing the proposed version of apport you'll want to revert the changes you made to whoopsie-upload-all. With the version of apport from -proposed you should no longer see the failure message for the apport-autoreport.service. The best test case is just having an affected system test the package from -proposed though.
Regression Potential
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We are clearly fixing something that was a mistake in the original service so there is little chance for regression.
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ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: apport 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
Uname: Linux 4.18.3-041803-generic x86_64
ApportLog:
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 18 11:48:00 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (308 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Could you run the command 'systemctl status apport- autoreport. service' so we can get more information about the failure?