how to deal with BusyBox and apport-collect

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:15:14AM -0700, ∅ wrote:
> On this bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380774
> and bugs like it in debian-installer, the shell is BusyBox. Being a
> limited shell, there's no way to perform normal apport/ubuntu-bug
> functions. In this case, and especially with this particular one where
> a crash doesn't happen so much as a simple failure, what information
> should be collected to make the bug report complete?

One could look at the apport package hook for debian-installer which is
found in /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_debian-installer.py to
see which log files would be added to the bug report by apport. Here is
the package hook in the apport source branch for utopic:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/utopic/apport/utopic/view/head:/data/package-hooks/source_debian-installer.py

Using that information you could ask for the same information.

--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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