[Bug 1193509] Re: notified of crash reports which you do not have permission to read and submit

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This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.147.1

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update-notifier (0.147.1) saucy-proposed; urgency=low

  * 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)
 -- Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com>   Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:01:44 -0800

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu Saucy)
       Status: Fix Committed => 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:
  Fix Released

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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