crash reports with DBus.Error.NoReply should be blacklisted

Bug #914220 reported by Brian Murray
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

We receive lots of crash reports with DBus.Error.NoReply in them that are not useful in their current state as the dbus error message is generic and can happen for a lot of reasons, subsequently these reports should be blacklisted and no longer reported.

For example bug 907416, bug 715523 and bug 864563.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: apport 1.90-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.14-generic 3.2.0
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportLog:

ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 2e6ecd139611830c78226ad04ff4c093
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Tue Jan 10 12:28:20 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-04 (5 days ago)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Fixed in trunk r2122.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.91-0ubuntu1

---------------
apport (1.91-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - crashdb.py, check_duplicate(): If a crash has a signature but no
      existing duplicate in the DB, also check for an existing address
      signature duplicate in the DB.
    - apport-retrace: Use DistroRelease specific subdirectory of the cache dir
      for mapping a file to a package, as these maps are release specific.
    - packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Refresh Contents.gz cache if it is older than one
      day.
    - crashdb.py: Ensure that address_signature duplicate db table does not
      have multiple identical signatures by making it a primary key. Bump the
      db format to "3". Existing databases need to be migrated manually as
      SQLite does not allow adding a "PRIMARY KEY" constraint to existing
      tables.
    - crashdb.py: Do not add a new address signature entry if one already
      exists.
    - apport-cli: Fix UnicodeDecodeError on unicode report values.
      (LP: #275972)
    - launchpad.py: Only set bug task importance if it is undecided.
    - apport-retrace: Fix "an useful" typo. (LP: #911437)
    - report.py: Filter out frames which are internal kernel/glibc
      implementation details and not stable across duplicates. In particular,
      filter out __kernel-syscall() and the SSE stubs.
    - crashdb.py: Remove debugging leftover which completely disabled bug
      pattern checking.
    - report.py: Update reading AssertionMessage. Current (e)glibc turned
      __abort_msg from a simple static string into a struct.
    - Change permissions of .crash files from 0600 to 0640, so that /var/crash
      can be made g+s and crash handling daemons can access those.
    - Python exceptions: Blacklist DBus.Error.NoReply. It does not help to get
      these traces from the client-side application, you need the actual
      exception in the D-Bus server backend instead. (LP: #914220)
    - Support /etc/apport/whitelist.d/ similarly to /etc/apport/blacklist.d/,
      for cases like installer environments where only crashes of a few selected
      programs should be reported.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:56:00 +0100

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