[Bug 1193509] Re: notified of crash reports which you do not have permission to read and submit
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1193509 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sat Nov 9 06:38:24 UTC 2013
This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.148
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update-notifier (0.148) trusty; urgency=low
[ Iain Lane ]
* data/update-motd-updates-available: Update the stamp file atomically.
Thanks to Marius Gedminas! (LP: #1146170)
[ Brian Murray ]
* In the upstart crash notification job fix the path for watershed.
* debian/update-notifier-crash.conf: check that we have read permission on
the crash file before launching apport-gtk, additionally just launch
apport-gtk or system-crash-notification as they will check for new crashes
and start bug filing for each one (LP: #1193509)
* data/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot: Update the stamp file atomically.
Thanks to Marius Gedminas! (LP: #1240549)
-- Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:32:25 -0800
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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Title:
notified of crash reports which you do not have permission to read and
submit
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “update-notifier” source package in Saucy:
Triaged
Bug description:
Impact:
Users are notified of crash files for which they do not have permission to read, subsequently they can see odd "permission denied" dialogs which creates an unpleasant experience.
Test Case:
1) Login in as a guest user
2) In a terminal run 'xeyes &'
3) Then run 'pkill -11 xeyes'
4) Observe apport crash dialog and click X to close it
5) Switch back to your regular user
6) Observe a crash dialog for a "system crash", enter your password and then observe no apport crash dialog. (The original description indicates a permission denied message and this will happen if your user also has a .crash file that needs reporting, but that'd be a longer test case.)
Regression Potential:
As this changes the upstart job for crash notification's a fair bit its possible that some crashes will not be reported.
With the package from -proposed you will not receive a crash dialog
for the guest user's crash file.
A dialoge message is constantly coming up saying that a problem with
ubuntu has occured. When I click send details, another error comes up
saying: This problem report is damaged and cannot be processed.
PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')
No other information is given.
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