/usr/share/apport/apport:AttributeError:/usr/share/apport/apport@451:parse_arguments:print_usage:_print_message

My patch works by ensuring the apport can handle the number of arguments being passed such that print_usage() is never called so we won't Traceback trying to write to a non-existent file.

While you won't get a Traceback with the following test case you will see apport usage printed:

 $ PYTHONPATH=/home/bdmurray/source-trees/apport/trunk data/apport '8219' '11' '0' '1' '8219' '!usr!share!spotify!spotify' '(deleted)'
usage: apport [-h] [-p PID] [-s SIGNAL_NUMBER] [-c CORE_ULIMIT] [-d DUMP_MODE] [-P [GLOBAL_PID]]

With the fixed version of apport you'll see no such usage message.

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu50

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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu50) groovy; urgency=medium

  * etc/apport/crashdb.conf: Disable Launchpad crash reports for 20.10
    release.
  * data/apport: In the event that the crashing executable does not exist on
    disk any more the path name of the executable (passed by core) is appended
    with '(deleted)' because apport is currently using sys.argv for argument
    parsing there end up being too many arguments and apport crashes. This is
    fixed by adding handling for six arguments. (LP: #1899195)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:44:05 -0700

An upload of apport to focal-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "Symlinks appear inadvertently flattened; for example bin/apport-collect has changed from a symlink to a flat file.".

An upload of apport to bionic-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "Symlinks appear inadvertently flattened; for example bin/apport-collect has changed from a symlink to a flat file.".

Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apport into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.1-0ubuntu2.26 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-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. 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.

Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apport into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.11-0ubuntu27.11 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-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. 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.

Hello errors.ubuntu.com, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apport into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.9-0ubuntu7.19 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-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. 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.

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted apport (2.20.1-0ubuntu2.26) for xenial have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

apport/2.20.1-0ubuntu2.26 (i386)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/xenial/update_excuses.html#apport

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

Verification passed on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

bdmurray@clean-focal-amd64:~$ apt list apport
Listing... Done
apport/focal-updates,focal-updates,now 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.10 all [installed]
N: There are 2 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
bdmurray@clean-focal-amd64:~$ /usr/share/apport/apport '8219' '11' '0' '1' '8219' '!usr!bin!yes' '(deleted)'
usage: apport [-h] [-p PID] [-s SIGNAL_NUMBER] [-c CORE_ULIMIT] [-d DUMP_MODE] [-P [GLOBAL_PID]] [-E [EXECUTABLE_PATH]]
bdmurray@clean-focal-amd64:~$ sudo apt-get update &> /dev/null; sudo apt-get install apport python3-apport &> /dev/null
bdmurray@clean-focal-amd64:~$ apt list apport
Listing... Done
apport/focal-proposed,focal-proposed,now 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.11 all [installed]
N: There are 3 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
bdmurray@clean-focal-amd64:~$ /usr/share/apport/apport '8219' '11' '0' '1' '8219' '!usr!bin!yes' '(deleted)'
ERROR: apport (pid 2571) Thu Oct 29 10:06:17 2020: cannot create lock file (uid 1000): [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/run/apport.lock'

Verification passed on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ apt list apport
Listing... Done
apport/bionic-proposed,bionic-proposed 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.19 all [upgradable from: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.18]
N: There are 3 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ /usr/share/apport/apport '8219' '11' '0' '1' '8219' '!usr!bin!yes' '(deleted)'
usage: apport [-h] [-p PID] [-s SIGNAL_NUMBER] [-c CORE_ULIMIT] [-d DUMP_MODE]
              [-P [GLOBAL_PID]] [-E [EXECUTABLE_PATH]]
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ sudo apt-get update &> /dev/null; sudo apt-get install apport python3-apport &> /dev/null
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ apt list apport
Listing... Done
apport/bionic-proposed,bionic-proposed,now 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.19 all [installed,automatic]
N: There are 3 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ /usr/share/apport/apport '8219' '11' '0' '1' '8219' '!usr!bin!yes' '(deleted)'
ERROR: apport (pid 2868) Thu Oct 29 10:11:04 2020: cannot create lock file (uid 1000): [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/run/apport.lock'

Verification passed on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ apt list apport
Listing... Done
apport/xenial-updates,xenial-updates,xenial-security,xenial-security,now 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.23 all [installed]
N: There is 1 additional version. Please use the '-a' switch to see it
bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ /usr/share/apport/apport '8219' '11' '0' '1' '8219' '!usr!bin!yes' '(deleted)'
Usage: /usr/share/apport/apport <pid> <signal number> <core file ulimit> <dump mode> [global pid] [exe path]
The core dump is read from stdin.
bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ sudo apt-get update &> /dev/null; sudo apt-get install apport &> /dev/null

bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ apt list apport
Listing... Done
apport/xenial-proposed,xenial-proposed,now 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.26 all [installed]
N: There are 3 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
bdmurray@clean-xenial-amd64:~$ /usr/share/apport/apport '8219' '11' '0' '1' '8219' '!usr!bin!yes' '(deleted)'
ERROR: apport (pid 2644) Thu Oct 29 10:20:50 2020: cannot create lock file (uid 1000): [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/run/apport.lock'

The verification of the Stable Release Update for apport has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.11

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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu27.11) focal; urgency=medium

  * data/apport: In the event that the crashing executable does not exist on
    disk any more the path name of the executable (passed by core) is appended
    with '(deleted)' because apport is currently using sys.argv for argument
    parsing there end up being too many arguments and apport crashes. This is
    fixed by adding handling for six arguments. (LP: #1899195)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:30:49 -0700

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.19

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apport (2.20.9-0ubuntu7.19) bionic; urgency=medium

  * data/apport: In the event that the crashing executable does not exist on
    disk any more the path name of the executable (passed by core) is appended
    with '(deleted)' because apport is currently using sys.argv for argument
    parsing there end up being too many arguments and apport crashes. This is
    fixed by adding handling for six arguments. (LP: #1899195)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:34:10 -0700

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.26

---------------
apport (2.20.1-0ubuntu2.26) xenial; urgency=medium

  * data/apport: In the event that the crashing executable does not exist on
    disk any more the path name of the executable (passed by core) is appended
    with '(deleted)' because apport is currently using sys.argv for argument
    parsing there end up being too many arguments and apport crashes. This is
    fixed by adding handling for six arguments. (LP: #1899195)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:22:56 -0700