Apport-collect crashes with "AssertionError: Need to have either "project" or "distro" option"

[Luke Faraone]

Binary package hint: apport

When I start apport-collect, the following occurs:

faraone@Opus:~$ apport-collect -p tomboy 452677
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 101, in <module>
    crashdb = CrashDatabase(None, None, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 75, in __init__
    assert 'project' in options, 'Need to have either "project" or "distro" option'
AssertionError: Need to have either "project" or "distro" option
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 100, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL), 'w')
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/crash/_usr_bin_apport-collect.1000.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apport-collect", line 101, in <module>
    crashdb = CrashDatabase(None, None, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 75, in __init__
    assert 'project' in options, 'Need to have either "project" or "distro" option'
AssertionError: Need to have either "project" or "distro" option

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 15 20:56:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: apport 1.9.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64