ubuntu-bug can't report bugs on kernel threads

[Sébastien Pierre]

I'm trying to report a bug where 'iwlagn' hogs my CPU

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
  903 root 15 -5 0 0 0 R 99 0.0 104:05.39 iwlagn

However, iwlagn being not a program, I can't use ubuntu-bug in any ways:

  ubuntu-bug 903
  The specified process ID does not belong to a program.

  ubuntu-bug iwalgn
  Package iwlagn does not exist

and worse than that, clicking on the "report a bug" button on the right in this page https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ leads me back to this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs instead of a bug submission form.

And I can't find a way to submit a new bug outside of a package in Ubuntu...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 7 11:54:18 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: apport 1.9.3-0ubuntu4.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

iwlagn is not a program but rather a kernel driver hence the difficulty with filing a bug about it. However, apport should be able to determine that process id 903 is a kernel driver and then report a bug about linux or perhaps linux-backports-modules if the driver is provided by that package.

You could report your bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug linux' - linux is the package for the kernel. Additionally, the wiki page you've mentioned contains information about filing bugs using the web interface in Launchpad.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This bug was fixed in 1.19 a long time ago.