"ValueError: ['separator'] has no binary content" when running `apport-unpack /var/crash/...`

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

Fixed upstream: https://github.com/canonical/apport/commit/64820a0e2de0065d2ce08592bd1765169656c716

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.23.0-0ubuntu1

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apport (2.23.0-0ubuntu1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - apport-gtk:
      - Gracefully handle import failure of gi (LP: #1980561)
      - Catch AssertionError when importing Gdk (LP: #1980238)
    - data/apport:
      - Fix PermissionError for setuid programs inside container (LP: #1982487)
      - Fix reading from stdin inside containers (LP: #1982555)
    - apport-kde:
      - Fix inverse order of choices (LP: #1967965)
      - Import apport before usage (LP: #1980553)
      - Drop old workaround for bug in SIP destructor (LP: #1980553)
    - apport-unpack: Fix ValueError: ['separator'] has no binary content
      (LP: #1889443)
    - Fix _run_hook getting called with ui=None (LP: #1983481)
  * Refresh patches and drop backported patches
  * Fix pydocstyle and pylint complains in patches

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:31:55 +0200

I believe this fix should be backported into Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04 through an SRU.

I second that!

Yes, this fix should be at least SRUed to Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) and 20.04 (focal). I will prepare the SRU once the current pending one went through.

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

Hello Dan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apport into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

The previous SRU of apport for Focal has had the phasing of its update stop due to potential regressions. It would be good to get those addressed before accepting a new version of apport on top of that.

Successfully verified apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3 in an Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) virtual machine.

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/phased-updates.html lists three error:

* 27e989: existing bug #1999034 (but bucket changed in the update)
* d33ca0: bug #1947800 which will be fixed by 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.26
* b5217d: existing bug #1553416 (but bucket changed in the update)

Summary: All known bugs, but their bucket changed. So the phasing could continue.

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3

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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Replace deprecated 'imp' module (LP: #1947425)
  * Fix KeyError: 'CasperMD5json' (LP: #1964828)
  * apport-kde: Fix inverse order of choices (LP: #1967965)
  * apport-unpack: Fix ValueError: ['separator'] has no binary content
    (LP: #1889443)
  * test:
    - Mock add_gdb_info calls in KDE UI tests
    - Fix KDE UI tests if whoopsie.path is disabled
    - Fix race with progress dialog in KDE UI tests
    - Run UI KDE tests again
    - Determine source package dynamically in test_run_crash_kernel
      (LP: #1992172)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:47:19 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for apport has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Hello Dan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apport into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.20.11-0ubuntu27.27 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Verified in a focal VM (using sleep since focal does not have chaos-marmosets):

```
$ sleep 3600 &
$ sudo rm /var/crash/_usr_bin_*
$ killall -11 sleep
$ tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
$ apport-unpack /var/crash/_usr_bin_sleep.1000.crash "$tmpdir"
$
```

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.27

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apport (2.20.11-0ubuntu27.27) focal; urgency=medium

  * whoopsie-upload-all: Catch zlib.error when decoding CoreDump from
    crash file (LP: #1947800)
  * Fix KeyError: 'CasperMD5json' (LP: #1964828)
  * apport-kde: Fix inverse order of choices (LP: #1967965)
  * apport-unpack: Fix ValueError: ['separator'] has no binary content
    (LP: #1889443)
  * test:
    - Clear environment for test_run_as_real_user_no_sudo
    - Mock add_gdb_info calls in KDE UI tests
    - Fix KDE UI tests if whoopsie.path is disabled
    - Fix race with progress dialog in KDE UI tests
    - Run UI KDE tests again
    - Determine source package dynamically in test_run_crash_kernel
      (LP: #1992172)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Apr 2023 01:17:21 +0200