"Use of uninitialized value $attachbase"

[Bryce Harrington]

Binary package hint: bugzilla

I'm getting emails about an undefined value in bugzilla, following a recent karmic update

From: Anacron <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on chideok

/etc/cron.daily/bugzilla3:
Use of uninitialized value $attachbase in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla/Util.pm line 290.
Use of uninitialized value $attachbase in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla/Util.pm line 290.
Use of uninitialized value $attachbase in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla/Util.pm line 290.
Use of uninitialized value $attachbase in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla/Util.pm line 290.
Use of uninitialized value $attachbase in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Bugzilla/Util.pm line 290.

[Ken Foskey (foskey)]

Appeared in Karmic release.

Patch can be shortened to simply remove ne ''

from: return ($attachbase ne ''
to: return ($attachbase

[Raphael Bossek (bossekr)]

Hi Bryce,

which version of bugzilla are you using ? I'm not able to reproduce the problem here. Applying your patch result in errors starting /usr/share/bugzilla3/lib/checksetup.pl.

Greetings,
Raphael

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Sorry I ended up just uninstalling bugzilla. According to apt, this is the version it would install if I were to reinstall:

$ apt-cache madison bugzilla
  bugzilla | 3.2.4.0-3ubuntu1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources

If you think the issue is not relevant for the current bugzilla version you can go ahead and close out this bug report.