recoverable_problem (PermissionError) /usr/share/apport/recoverable_problem@75 → main → add_proc_info

[errors.ubuntu.com bug bridge]

The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport. This problem was most recently seen with version 2.14.7-0ubuntu10, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/9a1df90760a88c9b4e5e7e3b4ef450f6b5669c7c contains more details.

More Buckets:
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/2a97a88118a1d8746cff239205a4cd9eb3d0357d
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/72c621876cfe04b51b37f8f3ef08c3da0460b462
https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/72c621876cfe04b51b37f8f3ef08c3da0460b462

Other reference:
bug 1394919

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's the Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/recoverable_problem", line 75, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/apport/recoverable_problem", line 41, in main
    report.add_proc_info(report.pid)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 510, in add_proc_info
    self['ExecutablePath'] = os.readlink('/proc/' + pid + '/exe')
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/proc/1/exe'

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It seems to be like we should check and see if we have permission to examine the process before calling add_proc_info() thereby avoiding this traceback.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.10-0ubuntu25

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apport (2.20.10-0ubuntu25) disco; urgency=medium

  * test/test_report.py: update test_add_proc_info for function raising a
    ValueError.

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:18:25 -0700

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's the better changelog entry:

apport (2.20.10-0ubuntu24) disco; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: apport-gtk should depend on whoopsie-preferences as that
    is needed to store preferences for reporting crashes. (LP: #1809247)
  * apport/report.py, apport/ui.py: raise ValueError if the pid is not
    accessible, display an error message for that or an invalid pid. (LP: #1396160)
  * switch from pyflakes to pyflakes3, drop some python2 code
  * apport/report.py: Have add_gdb_info return a FileNotFoundError if gdb or
    the crashing executable are not found and modify whoopsie-upload-all to
    upload crashes in that situation. (LP: #1820132)
  * debian/control, apport/hookutils.py: pkexec does not work in non-graphical
    environments yet (LP #1821415) and its providing package should only be
    a suggests because gathering of information as root isn't entirely
    necessary for a bug report. ...