[Bug 1193509] Re: notified of crash reports which you do not have permission to read and submit
Brian Murray
brian at ubuntu.com
Wed Nov 20 17:54:53 UTC 2013
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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:
Fix Committed
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) Create a second user
2) Log out as your regular user
3) Login as this second user
4) In a terminal run 'xeyes &'
5) In a terminal run 'pkill -11 xeyes'
6) Close resulting crash dialog (do not send it)
7) Log out as second user
8) Log in as your regular user
9) As your regular user install d-feet
10) In a terminal run 'd-feet &'
11) In a terminal run 'pkill -11 d-feet'
12) Close resulting crash dialog (do not send it)
13) Log out
14) In a virtual terminal modify both crash files (xeyes and d-feet) in
/var/crash by adding a second to the Date: field in each crash file. This
causes the upstart job to think they are new again.
15) Log in as your regular user and observe two crash notifications, one will
be for d-feet the other will be a "Permission denied" dialog.
With the package version from -proposed you will only receive one crash
dialog.
Regression Potential:
As this changes the upstart job for crash notification's a fair bit its possible that some crashes will not be reported.
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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