[Bug 1848064] Re: /usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all:PermissionError:/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all at 168:collect_info:process_report

[Brian Murray]

I personally noticed this with a crash file with the following
permissions:

-rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 194K Feb  7 15:22 _usr_bin_seeded-in-
ubuntu.1000.crash

whoopsie-upload-all, which runs as root, is unable to append to the
crash file due to /proc/sys/fs/protected_regular being set to 1.
Changing that file to 0 allows whoopsie-upload-all to run. Here's a
simple test case, thanks Steve!

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_regular
# python3 -c "foo = open('/var/crash/_usr_bin_reportbug.1000.crash', 'ab')"
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_regular
# python3 -c "foo = open('/var/crash/_usr_bin_reportbug.1000.crash', 'ab')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/crash/_usr_bin_reportbug.1000.crash'

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Title:
  /usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-
  all:PermissionError:/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-
  all at 168:collect_info:process_report

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in apport source package in Eoan:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport.  This problem was most recently seen with package version 2.20.11-0ubuntu8, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/d9f09f3b3e7aa8ab77434ef30f33416a856971ae contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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