[Bug 1700810] Re: aptdaemon's crash.py file is not working

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted aptdaemon into focal-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.1
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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** Changed in: aptdaemon (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

** Changed in: aptdaemon (Ubuntu Eoan)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-eoan

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Title:
  aptdaemon's crash.py file is not working

Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in aptdaemon source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in aptdaemon source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in aptdaemon source package in Eoan:
  Fix Committed
Status in aptdaemon source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  aptdaemon ships its own crash handler which is not working and subsequently crash reports are not being created about aptdaemon. Given that aptdaemon is the package manager behind update-manager it'd be good to get crash reports from it.

  [Test Case]
  1) cd /
  2) Run 'sudo python3 aptdaemon.crash'
  3) Look for a crash file in /var/crash named '_usr_sbin_aptd.0.crash'

  With the current version aptdaemon no crash file will be created. With
  the version of aptdaemon from -proposed. there will be a crash file
  and if you view it you will see "Title: test" and "Traceback:
  testtrace" in the file.

  [Regression Test Case]
  After creating a .crash file with the version of aptdaemon from -proposed run 'sudo python3 aptdaemon.crash' again. You should receive a 'FileExistsError' traceback from apport.

  [Regression Potential]
  Aptdaemon is being updated to use a function that was renamed in apport so there is little chance of regression. However, we are removing a file exists check (which should now be handled by apport) so we should double check that an existing crash file doesn't get overwritten.

  [Original Description]
  aptdaemon includes a file named crash.py which is supposed to create apport problem reports for a given crash. However, searching through bug attachments for aptdaemon bug reports I don't see any with the key "TransactionRole" in any recent bug reports.

   $ grep -r TransactionRole *
  bug-1058886/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-commit-packages
  bug-1158395/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-install-file
  bug-1166875/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-remove-packages
  bug-1201054/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-commit-packages
  bug-1237851/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-commit-packages
  bug-1279716/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-commit-packages
  bug-1293334/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-pk-query
  bug-1297434/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-install-file
  bug-1301063/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-install-packages
  bug-1306498/Description.txt:TransactionRole: role-pk-query
  bug-1380290/apport_crash.log:TransactionRole: role-pk-query

  It seems likely that either "trans" is null, or something is wrong
  with aptdaemon's crash handler.

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