"apport" automatic bug-reporting system doesn't (apparently) let you see what it reports to launchpad

I don't think this bug has anything to do with Launchpad.

Same here. Upgrade failed and apport asked if I want to file a report. I agreed, expecting that it will show me contents of the report that I will be able to review and cancel if it contains some sensitive data. But it didn't show anything except for a progress bar I couldn't event stop. That's completely unacceptable and I won't file _any_ automatic reports again. At least until I know this one is fixed.

This is strange. Apport only directly uploads the report and guides you to a browser if you file a bug. For crashes it should present a dialog like [1], don't you get that one? If you expand "Content of the report' you see all the data it will report.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=apport-gtk-report.png

I think I know what happened. I've looked at the code and now I see that report review is available only on "Crash" and "Kernel" problems, but not for "Package" etc. If I kill update-manager with SIGSEGV ("Crash" problem), it does show the dialog, but it didn't when dpkg-* failed during dist-upgrade ("Package" problem). Okay, I do understand that reports for failed dpkg-reconfigure without any core dumps, stack traces, process maps etc. are mostly harmless, but still I'm not comfortable with sending _any_ information without my confirmation.

 status triaged

Hi,

Wojtek Kaniewski [2008-01-19 1:31 -0000]:
> I think I know what happened. I've looked at the code and now I see that
> report review is available only on "Crash" and "Kernel" problems, but
> not for "Package" etc. If I kill update-manager with SIGSEGV ("Crash"
> problem), it does show the dialog, but it didn't when dpkg-* failed
> during dist-upgrade ("Package" problem). Okay, I do understand that
> reports for failed dpkg-reconfigure without any core dumps, stack
> traces, process maps etc. are mostly harmless, but still I'm not
> comfortable with sending _any_ information without my confirmation.

Ah, I see what you mean. I was not concerned about this so far because
it does not contain any private data. But I see your point -- how can
you know that it's harmless until you could actually see it. :-)

I'll change apport to always display the confirmation dialog with the
details.

Thanks,

Martin

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it is absurd that launchpad tells you it will include more information but not actually let you review that information before you send it.

This problem has been sitting here for over a year and it still hasn't been fixed, even Microsoft will tell you what you are going to send before you send it, also it sends it launchpad right when the browser window opens so even if the bug report is not submitted launchpad has everything.

this is not just when a program crashes but any time apport is triggered.

my problem seems to be like this and posted here in greek https://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25390&p=269300#p269300

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

Apport does show you what it is going to send in the "Details" expander. It has always done this, so this has never been a bug in Apport itself.