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aptdaemon package

aptd crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Bug #828216 reported by Steve Langasek
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aptdaemon (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
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Bug Description

It seems that every time a package fails to install via update-manager, I get *two* apport prompts: one for the package failure, which results in a useful bug report; and one for aptdaemon, which "crashes" when dpkg returns an error.

The latter should definitely not result in triggering apport, so I guess something in aptdaemon should be fixed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: aptdaemon 0.43+bzr670-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 17 10:20:36 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/aptd
ProcEnviron:

PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd']
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: aptd crashed with SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Traceback: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-27 (51 days ago)
UserGroups:

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
visibility: private → public
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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

reopened because already triaged

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

The problem is that (python)apt has got a very poor exception handling. We only get a SystemError and the error cause is only given in possible translated clear text.

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : This bug is a duplicate

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #799982, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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