ubuntu-bug can't always report bugs against "no particular package"
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apport (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
If you choose the option in ubuntu-bug to report a bug against "no particular package", if you follow the instructions at https:/
In my case, I wanted to report a bug in whatever it is that handles an Ubuntu upgrade.
When started as recommended on the above web page, ubuntu-bug demands a PID, and without one, it won't work.
I suggest adding some text to the ReportingBugs page to explain that if you can't provide a process ID, you can provide a package name. And that if you don't know the package name (e.g. if you were trying to report a bug against ubuntu-bug itself), you can do a search to find what package the command comes from, like so:
apt-cache search ubuntu-bug (which tells you that ubuntu-bug is in the reportbug package, therefore you would have to run ubuntu-bug reportbug).
lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04
apt-cache policy reportbug
reportbug:
Installed: 4.10.2ubuntu1
Candidate: 4.10.2ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 4.10.2ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: reportbug 4.10.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 11 17:18:22 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: reportbug
I should add, it seems to me that there's no way to report a bug if you don't know what package the bug is in. In my case, I don't know the name of the package that handles a system update.
I don't know how a novice would find that out. From some thinking and poking about, I've guessed that it's probably update-manager.