[Bug 1675928] Re: apport crashes if you can't read .xession-errors

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This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.5-0ubuntu3

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apport (2.20.5-0ubuntu3) artful; urgency=medium

  * Revert change to test/test_crash_digger.py to use the source's
    crash-digger.

 -- Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 15 May 2017 16:00:06 -0700

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

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Title:
  apport crashes if you can't read .xession-errors

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

Bug description:
  Change the owner of .xsessions-errors

  sudo chown root ~/.xsession-errors

  Run this code

   $ python3
  Python 3.5.2+ (default, Sep 22 2016, 12:18:14) 
  [GCC 6.2.0 20160927] on linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> from apport import hookutils
  >>> hookutils.xsession_errors()
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    File "/home/bdmurray/source-trees/apport/trunk/apport/hookutils.py", line 521, in xsession_errors
      with open(path, 'rb') as f:
  PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/bdmurray/.xsession-errors'

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