real kerneloops and suspend/hibernate/resume bugs are hard to separate

[Andy Whitcroft]

Binary package hint: apport

When submitting a real kerneloops we end up with a tags of <arch> apport-kerneloops, for suspend/hibernate/resume bugs we get <arch> apport-kernelopps resume <sleep type>. This is fine for the s/h/r bugs as they can be found with 'apport-kerneloops resume' but there is not way to exclude the resume bugs from the kerneloops list.

We are treating the kerneloops report type in apport as a kernelerror type and we should probabally therefore make the tags reflect that. One option might be to make the general tag apport-kernel and then manually add the apport-kerneloops only to the actual oopses that migth work better.

   oops: apport-kernel apport-kerneloops
   s/r/h: apport-kernel resume hibernate

The other might be to add a subsiduary tag for panics:

  oops: apport-kerneloops panic-oops
  s/r/h: apport-kerneloops resume hibernate

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I agree that "apport-kernel" would be nicer as a general tag. I'm just concerned that this breaks backwards compatibility wrt. to LP searches and tools which search for this, thus right now I tend to go with the second alternative. Is that okay for you?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 0.148

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apport (0.148) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Matt Zimmerman ]
  * apport/hookutils.py: add attach_media_build to include information about
    the build of installation media in use (i.e. in a casper live CD
    environment)
  * general-hooks/ubuntu.py: use attach_media_build (LP: #351781)
  * bin/apportcheckresume: Use attach_file_if_exists rather than attach_file to
    avoid spurious error messages about non-existent log files (LP: #351973)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/local/ubuntu-bug: Drop generic passthrough of apport-{cli,gtk,kde}
    options since this leads to too much confusion. Instead just support a
    single argument and check whether it is a pid, a package name, a .crash
    file, or a program path. This does the right thing when calling it with a
    .crash file (LP: #347392) and fixes the help output (LP: #344923) Update
    manpage accordingly.
  * apport/hookutils.py: Move attach_media_build() to
    general-hooks/ubuntu.py, since it is Ubuntu specific.
  * bin/apport-retrace: Fix KeyError crash on bugs with an ExecutablePath
    which does not exist any more. Close the bug as invalid instead.
    (LP: #352331)
  * bin/kernel_oops: Add "kernel-oops" tag. Since both bin/kernel_oops and
    bin/apportcheckresume use the "kerneloops" bug class, it previously was
    hard to filter out the bug reports which were real oopses. (LP: #349621)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:10:01 +0200