/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all:OSError(5):/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all@196:collect_info:process_report:add_package_info:_customized_package_suffix:get_modified_files

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The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport. This problem was most recently seen with package version 2.20.11-0ubuntu71.1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/e18a567631253a0239b6097c5b9fb6bc5bacdcaa contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 196, in <module>
    stamps = collect_info()
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 146, in collect_info
    res = process_report(r)
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 91, in process_report
    r.add_package_info()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 380, in add_package_info
    dep, v, self._customized_package_suffix(dep))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 294, in _customized_package_suffix
    mod = packaging.get_modified_files(package)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 395, in get_modified_files
    for line in fd:
OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Example crash: https://errors.ubuntu.com/oops/da6aa440-bb54-11ec-a357-fa163ef35206
In that case the journal log shows clearly that this error is caused by faulty hardware:

kernel: blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 220959648 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0