[Bug 1722801] Re: apport isn't started on new installs

[Iain Lane]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 09:17:53PM -0000, Brian Murray wrote:
> There is no apport.init in the debian directory by adding a symlink for
> that to etc/init.d/apport I was able to get a postinst with:
> 
> # Automatically added by dh_installinit/10.7.2ubuntu2
> if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ]; then
>         if [ -x "/etc/init.d/apport" ]; then
>                 update-rc.d apport defaults >/dev/null
>                 invoke-rc.d apport start || true
>         fi
> fi
> # End automatically added section

Yeah, I think telling dh_installinit to do that with -o is similar to
this - from the manpage:

       -o, --only-scripts
           Only modify postinst/postrm/prerm scripts, do not actually install any init script, default files,
           upstart job or systemd service file. May be useful if the file is shipped and/or installed by
           upstream in a way that doesn't make it easy to let dh_installinit find it.

That sounds like what we're doing here, and seems to generate the same
code in postinst/postrm.

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Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]

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Title:
  apport isn't started on new installs

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  with this version:

  root at cosmic-terrapin:~# apt policy apport
  apport:
    Installed: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
    Candidate: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 2.20.7-0ubuntu2 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  the rc*.d links aren't installed

  root at cosmic-terrapin:~# ls -l /etc/rc*.d/*apport*
  ls: cannot access '/etc/rc*.d/*apport*': No such file or directory

  which means that apport isn't started, so it doesn't set up the
  core_pattern.

  on zesty, it seems good

  root at sharing-macaw:~# apt policy apport
  apport:
    Installed: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5
    Candidate: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5
    Version table:
   *** 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.20.4-0ubuntu4 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages

  root at sharing-macaw:~# ls -l /etc/rc*.d/*apport*
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 11 13:17 /etc/rc2.d/S01apport -> ../init.d/apport
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 11 13:17 /etc/rc3.d/S01apport -> ../init.d/apport
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 11 13:17 /etc/rc4.d/S01apport -> ../init.d/apport
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 11 13:17 /etc/rc5.d/S01apport -> ../init.d/apport

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