[Bug 1922937] [NEW] reading casper-md5check.json fails

[Brian Murray]

Public bug reported:

bdmurray at clean-hirsute-amd64:/tmp$ ubuntu-bug plymouth

*** Collecting problem information

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application. This might take a few minutes.
......ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 228, in _run_hook
    symb['add_info'](report, ui)
  File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py", line 84, in add_info
    apport.hookutils.attach_casper_md5check(report,
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 995, in attach_casper_md5check
    with open(location) as json_file:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/casper-md5check.json'

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu Hirsute)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Brian Murray (brian-murray)
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: apport (Ubuntu Hirsute)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Hirsute)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Hirsute)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Hirsute)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-21.04

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Title:
  reading casper-md5check.json fails

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in apport source package in Hirsute:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  bdmurray at clean-hirsute-amd64:/tmp$ ubuntu-bug plymouth

  *** Collecting problem information

  The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
  application. This might take a few minutes.
  ......ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py crashed:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 228, in _run_hook
      symb['add_info'](report, ui)
    File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py", line 84, in add_info
      apport.hookutils.attach_casper_md5check(report,
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 995, in attach_casper_md5check
      with open(location) as json_file:
  PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/casper-md5check.json'

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