apport can't find firefox - FAIL!

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

For what it's worth, output from my efforts, as a normal user:

$ ubuntu-bug grub2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 368, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 553, in run_argv
    return self.run_report_bug()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 369, in run_report_bug
    self.collect_info(symptom_script)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 769, in collect_info
    icthread.exc_raise()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/REThread.py", line 34, in run
    self._retval = self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 84, in thread_collect_info
    not apport.packaging.is_distro_package(report['Package'].split()[0])) \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 134, in is_distro_package
    for line in open(f):
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'firefox'

$ id
uid=1005(nick) gid=1005(nick) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),21(fax),24(cdrom),25(floppy),26(tape),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),104(fuse),1005(nick)
$ apt-cache policy apport
apport:
  Installed: 1.13.3-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.13.3-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.13.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04

Apport is looking for "firefox" in current working directory. So changing directory to /usr/bin before launching the apport-command works around the issue. Strange that it does not use PATH. Suspect incompatibilty with firefox package from mozillateam PPA.

My work-around works – but not for the reason I thought. Looks like the mozillateam Firefox PPA package adds an entry to /etc/apport/native-origins.d, which in turn triggers what looks like a trivial bug in /usr/share/pyshared/apport/packaging_impl.py.

The attached patch corrects it for me.

The attachment "Fix path when opening files under /etc/apport/native-origins.d" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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