selftest fails in Ubuntu 12.10 with test_apport_report

Bug #1107464 reported by Dylan McCall
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Bug Description

Running bzr selftest in Ubuntu 12.10, the following test seems to fail on every machine I have tried it on, always with the following error:

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FAIL: bzrlib.tests.test_crash.TestApportReporting.test_apport_report
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_StringException: Empty attachments:
  log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/tests/test_crash.py", line 57, in test_apport_report
    stderr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/crash.py", line 127, in report_bug_to_apport
    crash_filename = _write_apport_report_to_file(exc_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/crash.py", line 173, in _write_apport_report_to_file
    pr['Locale'] = os.environ.get('LANG')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 567, in __setitem__
    and (hasattr(v[0], 'isalnum') or hasattr(v[0], 'read'))))
AssertionError

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Ran 27987 tests in 293.810s

FAILED (failures=1, known_failure_count=59)
2763 tests skipped

I created an lxc container (sudo lxc-create -t ubuntu -n bzr-test) and ran bzr selftest in there. It skips test_crash, due to the missing dependencies, but every test that is run passes happily. After installing apport and python-apport, test_crash runs, and fails. The included error report is from bzr selftest run inside that lxc container.

Quickest way to reproduce this is the following:
bzr selftest --one -s bzrlib.tests.test_crash

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: bzr 2.6.0~beta2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 27 19:40:27 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-02 (86 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64(20121023)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: bzr
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote :
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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote :

Oh, actually I'm seeing two issues here. Apport wants a file opened in binary mode for pr.write, but it was also failing in my lxc container for a _second_ reason:
pr['Locale'] = os.environ.get('LANG')
That causes a crash in a minimal environment, with the LANG variable unset, because apparently python-apport's Report class doesn't like when we set an empty value.

There are a 4 other failing tests, with the qbzr and builddeb plugins, but at least those ones aren't in core bzr :)

John A Meinel (jameinel)
Changed in bzr:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Fix Released
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