Reports modified /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package name>.list

[Matt Zimmerman]

Binary package hint: apport

Example: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/349314/comments/47

Package: linux None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux.list]

ProblemType: Bug
ApportLog:
 apport (pid 29898) Tue Apr 21 11:01:13 2009: called for pid 1522, signal 11
 apport (pid 29898) Tue Apr 21 11:01:13 2009: executable: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin (command line "/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so --connection /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/libflashplayer.so/1361-2")
 apport (pid 29898) Tue Apr 21 11:02:02 2009: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_lib_nspluginwrapper_i386_linux_npviewer.bin.1000.crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
 600:1000:1000:8292015:2009-04-21 11:02:03.000000000 +0100:2009-04-21 11:03:09.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_lib_nspluginwrapper_i386_linux_npviewer.bin.1000.crash
 600:1000:1000:796600:2009-04-17 20:21:08.000000000 +0100:2009-04-17 20:21:09.000000000 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_lib_gvfs_gvfsd-smb.1000.crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: apport 1.0-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This seems to happen when using ubuntu-bug with any package which is not installed, including the syntactic sugar "linux". Another example (with ubuntu-bug rather than apport-collect):

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/364649

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I believe this is also related to bug 361359 where the package version is identified as None.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

trunk r1431

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.1.1-0ubuntu2

---------------
apport (1.1.1-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * hookutils.py: Do not attach /proc/version_signature, it's Ubuntu specific.
    (Merged from trunk). Instead, attach it in general-hooks/ubuntu.py.
  * general-hooks/ubuntu.py: Attach package conffile information.
  * debian/local/apport-collect: Add workaround for launchpadlib bug
    LP#353805, to avoid crashing with non-UTF8 attachments. (LP: #368004)
  * debian/local/apport-collect: Fix import of launchpadlib's HTTPError.
  * apport/hookutils.py, attach_conffiles(): Ignore empty lines from
    dpkg-query output.
  * general-hooks/ubuntu.py: Strip off '/target' prefix from ExecutablePath
    and InterpreterPath, to correctly process crash reports from the live
    system installer.
  * apport/hookutils.py, attach_conffiles(): Do not use command_output(),
    since that causes error messages to get parsed as conffiles. Use
    subprocess properly.
  * backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Replace deprecated python-apt properties
    with current ones (merged from trunk). Update python-apt dependency to
    >= 0.7.9.
  * packaging-apt-dpkg.py, get_modified_files(): Do not show package list file
    as modified if the package is not installed (merged from trunk).
    (LP: #364533)
  * backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py, install_retracing_packages(): Fix syntax
    error which broke the retracers.

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]
  * bin/apportcheckresume: the suspend _and_ hibernate logs are both in
    pm-suspend.log.
  * bin/apportcheckresume: remove redunant check for file before attaching
    stress log.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 13 May 2009 15:22:53 +0200