/usr/share/apport/apport:AttributeError:/usr/share/apport/apport@458:parse_arguments:print_usage:_print_message

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's the Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 458, in <module>
    options = parse_arguments()
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 404, in parse_arguments
    parser.print_usage()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/argparse.py", line 2370, in print_usage
    self._print_message(self.format_usage(), file)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/argparse.py", line 2381, in _print_message
    file.write(message)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is a variation of LP: #1899195 however in this case the executable path has a space in the name e.g.

/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server

which ends up being split into multiple arguments:

['/usr/share/apport/apport', '1700', '11', '0', '1', '1700', '!usr!lib!plexmediaserver!Plex', 'Media', 'Server']

Which is more than apport expects.