[Bug 1787729] Re: apport-autoreport.service fails if whoopsie isn't running

[Brian Murray]

I installed apport version 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 from bionic-proposed and
ran through the test case from the bug description and can confirm that
automatic reporting was enabled and that there were no issues with
whoopsie.

bdmurray at clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl status apport-autoreport.service
● apport-autoreport.service - Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apport-autoreport.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2019-03-05 08:49:56 PST; 4min 13s ago
  Process: 589 ExecStart=/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 589 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 05 08:49:55 clean-bionic-amd64 systemd[1]: Starting Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled...
Mar 05 08:49:56 clean-bionic-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
bdmurray at clean-bionic-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy apport
apport:
  Installed: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
  Candidate: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6

I'd prefer if somebody experiencing the issue on Ubuntu 18.04 could
verify it though.

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Title:
  apport-autoreport.service fails if whoopsie isn't running

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in apport source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Impact
  ------
  If automatic crash reporting is enabled and apport-autoreport.service starts before whoopsie on boot then crash reports that happened during shutdown or start up will not be automatically uploaded to the error tracker.

  Test Case
  ---------
  1) install apport-noui
  2) sudo service apport stop
  3) modify /usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all to exit(1) thereby recreating the situation where whoopsie isn't running. I did this by copying lines 159,160 to 161,162 and unindenting them. N.B. this isn't necessary if you are on a system where whoopsie is starting after apport.
  4) touch /var/crash/my.crash
  5) reboot
  5) run 'systemctl status apport-autoreport.service' and observe it failed because whoopsie isn't running

  When testing the proposed version of apport you'll want to revert the
  changes you made to whoopsie-upload-all. With the version of apport
  from -proposed you should no longer see the failure message for the
  apport-autoreport.service. The best test case is just having an
  affected system test the package from -proposed though.

  Regression Potential
  --------------------
  We are clearly fixing something that was a mistake in the original service so there is little chance for regression.

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  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: apport 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
  Uname: Linux 4.18.3-041803-generic x86_64
  ApportLog:

  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Aug 18 11:48:00 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (308 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
  PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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