[Bug 448855] Re: Have apport check for conflicting binaries in path.

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Have apport check for conflicting binaries in path.

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  There was just a bug, submitted properly against the appropriate
  package with apport, that turned out to be caused by the user having a
  conflicting binary in his path (installed from the upstream tarball).
  He was running /usr/local/bin/hugin when he thought he was running
  /usr/bin/hugin from the hugin package.

  It would be great if apport checked for such things - for every
  executable in the reported package, see if there is one by the same in
  the path that's not from the package.

  (Does it already verify checksums of the files in the package?)

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CrashReports:
   600:1000:1000:11500023:2009-10-09 23:08:42.000000000 -0400:2009-10-09 23:08:43.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_compiz.real.1000.crash
   600:1000:1000:62450:2009-10-09 20:31:03.000000000 -0400:2009-10-09 20:31:04.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_sbin_modinfo.1000.crash
   600:1000:1000:6559139:2009-10-10 11:14:09.000000000 -0400:2009-10-10 11:14:17.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_transmission.1000.crash
   600:1000:1000:68832:2009-10-08 22:43:48.000000000 -0400:2009-10-08 22:43:49.000000000 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_dput.1000.crash
  Date: Sun Oct 11 13:08:31 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: apport 1.9.2-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13bfs1.43-generic
  SourcePackage: apport
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13bfs1-generic i686

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