apport appears broken in latest updates/dailies

[Jeremy Foshee]

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 09:02 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Bryce Harrington [2010-03-14 16:15 -0700]:
> > > I thought the -p was no longer required on Karmic? and later?  Looks
> > > like its no longer supported.  apport is supposed to self classify the
> > > parameters these days, package or bug #.
> 
> Only for apport-bug, not for apport-collect.
> 
> > Pitti, probably would be a good idea even if -p is now unneeded, to
> > leave it supported as a depricated option for the period of one release
> > cycle.
> 
> It seems that it's just plain broken (inadvertantly). Filed as
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/538944


Pitti,
	I've just seen the following from a different bug:

"ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ apport-collect -p linux 422159
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 354, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 538, in
run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 472, in
run_update_report
    attachment_comment='apport information')
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py",
line 334, in update
    bug.lp_save()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py",
line 638, in lp_save
    URI(self.self_link), representation, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py",
line 316, in patch
    'PATCH', extra_headers=extra_headers)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py",
line 256, in _request
    raise HTTPError(response, content)
lazr.restfulclient.errors.HTTPError: HTTP Error 412: Precondition Failed
Response headers:
---
content-length: 0
content-type: text/plain
date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:08:54 GMT
server: zope.server.http (HTTP)
status: 412
vary: Cookie,Authorization,Accept
via: 1.1 wildcard.edge.launchpad.net
x-content-type-warning: guessed from content
x-powered-by: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org)
---
Response body:
---
"

That does not seem to be the same issue as for the breakage of -p. Does
this need to be brought up with anyone else or do you recognize this
failure. The reporter indicates that his network connection seems to be
working well.

Thanks!

~JFo

> Thanks for pointing out!
> 
> Martin
>