[Bug 767776] Re: apport report blocking of dpkg I/O errors is incomplete

[Brian Murray]

@Ryan - this bug report is about modifying apt to prevent specific types
of package installation failures from being reported to Launchpad by
apport. If you happen to be having a problem installing linux-image on a
Lucid machine and have found this bug report I'd guess its because you
are seeing 'short read in buffer_copy' error message when trying to
install the package.  This is likely due to a hardware or memory failure
on your system which is corrupting the package.   You should try
investigating the system to see if it is failing.  Thanks and good luck.

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Title:
  apport report blocking of dpkg I/O errors is incomplete

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Lucid:
  Won't Fix
Status in “apt” source package in Maverick:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Natty:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  TEST CASE:
  - the dpkg bugs are really hard to trigger so a regression test should be enough

  Binary package hint: apt

  apt currently prevents reporting of dpkg I/O errors in apt-
  pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc by looking for the string 'short read in
  buffer_copy' from dpkg.  However, this string has changed to 'short
  read on buffer copy for %s' and there are now more than one error
  messages used by dpkg (see lib/dpkg/buffer.c).

  This incomplete blocking is leading to unnecessary bug reports in
  Launchpad.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488
  CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
  Date: Wed Apr 20 14:48:23 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-10 (10 days ago)

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