Apport

Apport interprets packages that ship multiple desktop files as system applications

Bug #974428 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas on 2012-04-05

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Apport	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned
	apport (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

apport 2.0-0ubuntu4, nautilus 1:3.4.0-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Pangolin

1. Trigger a bug in Nautilus.

What happens: "Sorry, Ubuntu has an experienced an internal error."

What should happen: "The application Nautilus has closed unexpectedly."

See also bug 968157, the same problem with LibreOffice; bug 984823, the same problem with System Settings; and bug 964696, the opposite problem with Unity 2D.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2012-04-05:

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2012-04-18

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Bob Bib (bobbib) on 2012-05-21

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added: precise

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-05-21:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2012-08-09

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Evan (ev) on 2012-11-01

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added: whoopsie-daisy

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Evan (ev) wrote on 2012-11-30:

This is because the nautilus ships multiple desktop files. The apport/fileutils.py:find_package_desktopfile function returns None in this case, which we interpet as a system application. We should find a better solution.

Changed in apport:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Triaged
summary:	- Nautilus error inappropriately shown as "internal error" + Apport interprets packages that ship multiple desktop files as system + applications

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote on 2020-03-05:

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote on 2020-05-06:

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.