[Bug 1585702] Re: not possible to retrace ppc64el crashes

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This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.2-0ubuntu1

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apport (2.20.2-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * data/general-hooks/ubuntu.py: tag bug reports 'apport-hook-error' if they
    have an attachment from an apport hook which crashed.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream release. Changes since our previous snapshot:
    - Don't ignore OSError in Report.add_gdb_info(), as we do want to fail with an
      useful error message if gdb cannot be called in apport-retrace. Move the
      catching to the UI as not having gdb installed is still fine for reporting
      clients. (LP: #1579949)
    - Show gdb error messages in Report.add_gdb_info() OSError exception when gdb
      fails. (LP: #1579897)
    - hookutils, attach_root_command_outputs(): Return str again, like before
      2.15.2. (LP: #1370259)
    - Stop issuing "set architecture" gdb commands on ARM and Power; these only
      applied to 32 bit platforms and are apparently not needed any more with
      recent gdb versions. (LP: #1585702)
    - Disable report.test_add_gdb_info_abort_libnih test case for now, as libnih
      is broken under current Ubuntu (LP: #1580601)

 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>  Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:17:35
+0200

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  not possible to retrace ppc64el crashes

Status in Apport:
  Fix Released
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I was trying to retrace a ppc64el crash I found and ran into the
  following issue:

  Calling gdb command: gdb-multiarch --ex 'set architecture powerpc:common' --ex 'set gnutarget elf32-powerpc' --ex 'set debug-file-directory /tmp/apport_sandbox_Y6fXCx/usr/lib/debug' --ex 'set solib-absolute-prefix /tmp/apport_sandbox_Y6fXCx' --ex 'file "/tmp/apport_sandbox_Y6fXCx//usr/bin/xfce4-panel"' --ex 'core-file /tmp/apport_core_N0Vrmm'
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  The target architecture is assumed to be powerpc:common
  Architecture of file not recognized.
  [New LWP 44625]
  warning: Selected architecture powerpc:common is not compatible with reported target architecture powerpc:common64
  /build/buildd/gdb-7.7.1/gdb/gdbarch.c:3217: internal-error: gdbarch_elf_make_msymbol_special: Assertion `gdbarch != NULL' failed.
  A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
  further debugging may prove unreliable.

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