checkbox crashes when trying to send bug report

Bug #1047857 reported by Rachid
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
checkbox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

Checkbox crashes when a test fails and the user wants to submit a bug report. Restarting checkbox from the live cd is not possible anymore. A reboot is needed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: checkbox-qt 0.14.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.14-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.321
Date: Sat Sep 8 13:53:57 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/checkbox-qt
InterpreterPath: /bin/bash
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120905.2)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: checkbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Rachid (rachidbm) wrote :
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Thomas de Graaff (thomasdegraaff) wrote :

When checkbox is started from the commandline, and this problem occurs, one can end checkbox by ctrl+c.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Marc Tardif (cr3)
Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Marc Tardif (cr3)
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
Jeff Marcom (jeffmarcom)
Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Invalid
assignee: Marc Tardif (cr3) → nobody
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Jeff Marcom (jeffmarcom) wrote :

The apport_prompt plugin is being removed via merge: https://code.launchpad.net/~cr3/checkbox/1047857/+merge/126709, so marking this bug as won't fix.

Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Won't Fix
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Jeff Marcom (jeffmarcom) wrote :

scratch that. Marking as fix commited.

Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: Won't Fix → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package checkbox - 0.14.8

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checkbox (0.14.8) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #1061359)

  * Launchpad automated translation updates

  [Sylvain Pineau]
  * setup.py, qt/checkbox-qt.ui: Removed the old UI design file (LP: #1049912)
  * scripts/display_resource, jobs/resource.txt.in: Added a new display
    resource script to properly handle connector names returned by proprietary
    drivers (LP: #956139) (LP: #992727)
  * jobs/optical.txt.in, scripts/optical_write_test: Filter ANSI escape char
    outputed by wodim and removed some stray whitespace (LP: #1052803)
  * checkbox/parsers/udevadm.py: Improved wireless devices detection.
    The wireless category is now set if the subsystem is equal to ieee80211
    (LP: #855382)
  * debian/control, jobs/esata.txt.in, jobs/firewire.txt.in, jobs/usb.txt.in,
    jobs/mediacard.txt.in: Remove udisks package references in all of the jobs
    that use removable_storage scripts (LP: #1059620). Used wrap-and-sort in
    debian/control for clarity (Depends).
  * scripts/graphics_driver: Added NVIDIA driver detection (LP: #1060211)

  [Brendan Donegan]
  * jobs/cpu.txt.in - add environ field containing
    CHECKBOX_DATA to allow that environment variable to be used in the command
    (LP: #1049595)
  * jobs/wireless.txt.in - replace use of network_wireless_test in wireless_scanning
    with a simple Bash script using nmcli and delete network_wireless_test (LP: #900370)
  * [UIFe] qt/frontend/qtfront.ui, qt/frontend/qtfront.cpp - set focus to Continue
    button and make it the default so that it can be 'clicked' using Enter,
    as well as renaming it to 'continueButton' (LP: #1052506)
  * jobs/usb.txt.in - Fix dependencies of USB tests so that things work properly if
    the usb/storage-automated test fails (LP: #987876)
  * scripts/network_info - add exception handling to file reading so that
    sensible values are given if the required file cannot be read (LP: #823606)

  [Marc Tardif]
  * qt/frontend/qtfront.ui: Fixed warnings when building with
    qtcreator (LP: #1053126)
  * plugins/suites_prompt.py: Fixed tree view in selection window (LP: #1056432)
  * plugins/apport_prompt.py: Removed apport plugin that caused crashes
    when trying to send bug report (LP: #1047857)
  * jobs/optical.txt.in: Fixed missing category assignment in optical
    dvd write tests (LP: #1057762)

  [Jeff Marcom]
  * jobs/optical.txt.in: Changed optical read/write job commands to use
    a more reliable dev path (LP: #990560)

  [Daniel Manrique]
  * Added consecutive numbering to messages sent to the backend, so the
    frontend knows to discard out-of-sequence messages. (LP: #886118)
 -- Daniel Manrique <email address hidden> Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:23:34 -0400

Changed in checkbox (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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