[Bug 1922937] Re: reading casper-md5check.json fails

[Brian Murray]

The verification also passed on focal.

bdmurray at clean-focal-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy apport
apport:
  Installed: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.17
  Candidate: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.17
  Version table:
 *** 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.17 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal-security/main i386 Packages
     2.20.11-0ubuntu27 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages
bdmurray at clean-focal-amd64:~$ ubuntu-bug coreutils

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..==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
Authenticating as: Ubuntu,,, (bdmurray)
Password: ....
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
....

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** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-focal
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-focal

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Title:
  reading casper-md5check.json fails

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in apport source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in apport source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Bugs reported by apport are not including information about the results of the md5 check of the installation media used. Additionally, users are presented with a traceback regarding the ubuntu hook which is used with all bug reports.

  [Test Case]
  1) Boot an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 20.10 install
  2) Create the file /var/log/installer/casper-md5check.json with mode 0600.
  3) Run 'ubuntu-bug coreutils'

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  application. This might take a few minutes.
  ......ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py crashed:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 228, in _run_hook
      symb['add_info'](report, ui)
    File "/usr/share/apport/general-hooks/ubuntu.py", line 84, in add_info
      apport.hookutils.attach_casper_md5check(report,
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/hookutils.py", line 995, in attach_casper_md5check
      with open(location) as json_file:
  PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/casper-md5check.json'

  [Where problems could occur]
  We are switching to reading the file with attach_root_command_outputs which is a well tested function in apport so the only problem would be a result of the new code being added. This works well in Hirsute so there is little chance of their being an error.

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