[Bug 215380] Re: Unhandled exception: TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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

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Title:
  Unhandled exception: TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded
  string without NULL bytes), not str

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apport

  I have entries like the following in /var/log/apport.log:

  apport (pid 9923) Wed Apr  9 03:27:48 2008: called for pid 12999, signal 11
  apport (pid 9923) Wed Apr  9 03:27:48 2008: Unhandled exception:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/share/apport/apport", line 244, in <module>
      info.add_proc_info(pid)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport/report.py", line 351, in add_proc_info
      assert os.path.exists(self['ExecutablePath'])
    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 171, in exists
      st = os.stat(path)
  TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str

  This is with Ubuntu Hardy, apport 0.107

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