apport appears broken in latest updates/dailies

[Jeremy Foshee]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 12:49 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> That looks more like a launchpad breakage type bug.  Hard to work around
> in scripts.  Does it work if you re-run it a few more times?

I can definitely ask. I have seen it in a different bug as well, so I
can ask more than one person to test.

~JFo

> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:40:06PM -0400, Jeremy Foshee wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 09:02 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > Bryce Harrington [2010-03-14 16:15 -0700]:
> > > > > I thought the -p was no longer required on Karmic? and later?  Looks
> > > > > like its no longer supported.  apport is supposed to self classify the
> > > > > parameters these days, package or bug #.
> > > 
> > > Only for apport-bug, not for apport-collect.
> > > 
> > > > Pitti, probably would be a good idea even if -p is now unneeded, to
> > > > leave it supported as a depricated option for the period of one release
> > > > cycle.
> > > 
> > > It seems that it's just plain broken (inadvertantly). Filed as
> > > 
> > >   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/538944
> > 
> > 
> > Pitti,
> > 	I've just seen the following from a different bug:
> > 
> > "ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ apport-collect -p linux 422159
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 354, in <module>
> >     app.run_argv()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 538, in
> > run_argv
> >     return self.run_update_report()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 472, in
> > run_update_report
> >     attachment_comment='apport information')
> >   File
> > "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py",
> > line 334, in update
> >     bug.lp_save()
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/resource.py",
> > line 638, in lp_save
> >     URI(self.self_link), representation, headers)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py",
> > line 316, in patch
> >     'PATCH', extra_headers=extra_headers)
> >   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/lazr/restfulclient/_browser.py",
> > line 256, in _request
> >     raise HTTPError(response, content)
> > lazr.restfulclient.errors.HTTPError: HTTP Error 412: Precondition Failed
> > Response headers:
> > ---
> > content-length: 0
> > content-type: text/plain
> > date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:08:54 GMT
> > server: zope.server.http (HTTP)
> > status: 412
> > vary: Cookie,Authorization,Accept
> > via: 1.1 wildcard.edge.launchpad.net
> > x-content-type-warning: guessed from content
> > x-powered-by: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org)
> > ---
> > Response body:
> > ---
> > "
> > 
> > That does not seem to be the same issue as for the breakage of -p. Does
> > this need to be brought up with anyone else or do you recognize this
> > failure. The reporter indicates that his network connection seems to be
> > working well.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > ~JFo
> > 
> > > Thanks for pointing out!
> > > 
> > > Martin
> > > 
> > 
> >