Missing apport links for HWE kernels

[Juerg Haefliger]

[ Impact ]

No kernel logs are collected for HWE kernel issues in Noble.

[ Test Case ]

Run apport on an HWE kernel and verify kernel logs are collected.

[ Where Problems Could Occur ]

The kernel apport hook now runs for additional source packages which could result in bug reporting issues if the hook falls over.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Juerg, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-base into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-base/4.5ubuntu9+24.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted linux-base (4.5ubuntu9+24.04.2) for noble have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

initramfs-tools/0.142ubuntu25.8 (amd64)
kdump-tools/1:1.10.3ubuntu2 (arm64, ppc64el)
linux-aws-6.17/6.17.0-1007.7~24.04.1 (amd64)
linux-azure-6.17/6.17.0-1009.9~24.04.1 (arm64)
linux-azure-nvidia/6.8.0-1031.34 (arm64)
linux-gcp-6.14/6.14.0-1021.22~24.04.1 (arm64)
linux-gke/6.8.0-1046.51 (arm64)
linux-hwe-6.11/unknown (ppc64el)
linux-hwe-6.14/unknown (ppc64el)
linux-hwe-6.17/6.17.0-16.16~24.04.1 (arm64)
linux-hwe-6.17/unknown (ppc64el)
linux-lowlatency/6.8.0-104.104.1 (arm64)
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11/6.11.0-1016.17~24.04.1 (amd64)
linux-nvidia/6.8.0-1046.49 (amd64)
linux-nvidia-6.11/6.11.0-1016.16 (amd64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/noble/update_excuses.html#linux-base

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Installed linux-base from noble-proposed:

ubuntu@ubuntu-noble:~$ apt-cache policy linux-base
linux-base:
  Installed: 4.5ubuntu9+24.04.2
  Candidate: 4.5ubuntu9+24.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 4.5ubuntu9+24.04.2 100
        100 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.5ubuntu9+24.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
     4.5ubuntu9 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages

Verified that apport now collects kernel data for HWE 6.17:

$ sudo apport-bug linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic

*** Collecting problem information

The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
application. This might take a few minutes.
....

*** Send problem report to the developers?

After the problem report has been sent, please fill out the form in the
automatically opened web browser.

What would you like to do? Your options are:
  S: Send report (266.0 KB)
  V: View report
  K: Keep report file for sending later or copying to somewhere else
  I: Cancel and ignore future crashes of this program version
  C: Cancel
Please choose (S/V/K/I/C): k
Problem report file: /tmp/apport.linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic.v3fbhyfd.apport

For example the below is kernel-specific data:

$ sudo grep -A3 ^Related /tmp/apport.linux-image-6.17.0-14-generic.v3fbhyfd.apport
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-6.17.0-14-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-6.17.0-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.25

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-base - 4.5ubuntu9+24.04.2

---------------
linux-base (4.5ubuntu9+24.04.2) noble; urgency=medium

  * Add missing Apport links for HWE (and other new) kernel packages
    (LP: #2141393).

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:52:34 +0100

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-base has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.