Crashes if invoked on a process whose executable has been deleted: AssertionError at assert os.path.exists(self['ExecutablePath'])

[Matt Zimmerman]

Binary package hint: apport

Test case:

perseus:[~] cp /bin/sleep /tmp
perseus:[~] /tmp/sleep 60 &
[1] 18356
perseus:[~] rm /tmp/sleep
perseus:[~] kill -SEGV 18356
perseus:[~]
[1] + segmentation fault (core dumped) /tmp/sleep 60
perseus:[~] cat /var/log/apport.log
apport (pid 18404) Mon Oct 5 12:21:38 2009: called for pid 18356, signal 11
apport (pid 18404) Mon Oct 5 12:21:38 2009: Unhandled exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 244, in <module>
    info.add_proc_info(pid)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 346, in add_proc_info
    assert os.path.exists(self['ExecutablePath'])
AssertionError
pid: 18404, uid: 1000, gid: 1000, euid: 0, egid: 0
environment: {}

There is some further discussion about this at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-August/thread.html#28752 with a focus on how we might be able to handle this case better. This bug report is simply about the fact that this (fairly common) situation triggers a crash via AssertionError in apport. It should probably detect this case and log a more meaningful error instead.

ProblemType: Bug
ApportLog:

Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 5 12:20:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: apport 1.9.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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