[Bug 1922937] Re: reading casper-md5check.json fails

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Brian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apport into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.11-0ubuntu50.6 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Groovy)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-groovy

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

** Tags added: verification-needed-focal

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922937

Title:
  reading casper-md5check.json fails

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in apport source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in apport source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Bugs reported by apport are not including information about the results of the md5 check of the installation media used. Additionally, users are presented with a traceback regarding the ubuntu hook which is used with all bug reports.

  [Test Case]
  1) Boot an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 20.10 install
  2) Create the file /var/log/installer/caspter-md5check.json with mode 0600.
  3) Run 'ubuntu-bug coreutils'

  *** 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'

  [Where problems could occur]
  We are switching to reading the file with attach_root_command_outputs which is a well tested function in apport so the only problem would be a result of the new code being added. This works well in Hirsute so there is little chance of their being an error.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1922937/+subscriptions