attach_wifi() hook util omits some information

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Binary package hint: apport

Consider a slightly different logging format for applications logging to syslog:

Mar 10 10:05:30 demeter NetworkManager[1003]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.

I'm not certain when the change was introduced, but it appears to be an issue in Maverick and Natty.

Explicitly; this means that NetworkManager, modem-manager, dhclient log entries are omitted by th attach_wifi hook util because they now include the PID of the running program in square brackets.

The compiled regex for the WifiSyslog key in attach_wifi in hookutils.py should be adjusted to correct this.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Merged into trunk. Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.20-0ubuntu1

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apport (1.20-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. Changes since our previous snapshot:
    - Add support for -w/--window option which will enable user to select a
      window as a target for filing a problem report. Thanks Abhinav Upadhyay.
      (LP: #357847)
    - Disable the filtering on SIGABRT without assertion messages. Turns out
      that developers want these crash reports after all. (LP: #729223)
    - Add support for a "DuplicateSignature" report fields. This allows
      package hooks to implement custom duplicate problem handling which
      doesn't need to be hardcoded in Apport itself. Update the launchpad
      backend to tag such bugs as "need-duplicate-check".
    - hookutils.py Update WifiSyslog regex to correctly catch application log
      messages in syslog. Thanks Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre. (LP: #732917)
    - hookutils.py, attach_hardware(): Avoid error message if machine does not
      have a PCI bus. Thanks Marcin Juszkiewicz. (LP: #608449)
    - backends/packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Replace deprecated getChanges() call
      with get_changes().
    - apport-gtk: Fix broken dialog heading if the name of the crashed program
      contains an & or other markup specific characters.
    - apport-gtk: Don't crash if GTK cannot be initialized. This usually
      happens without a $DISPLAY or when the session is being shut down. Just
      print an error message. If there are pending crashes, they will be shown
      again the next time a session starts. (LP: #730569)
  * debian/local/apport-chroot: In retracing mode, fix the passed --auth and
    --duplicate-db arguments to be paths within the fakechroot.
  * debian/local/apport-chroot: Apply the same absolute path fix to retracing
    mode that we already applied to login mode in 1.19-0ubuntu1.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:39:07 +0100