apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

[wizard10000]

Guess the developers got tired of all those pesky bug reports

Latest upgrade (as of about an hour and a half ago) broke apport. dpkg reports an installation script error - I tried purging and reinstalling both 32- and 64-bit.

I figure it'll be fixed soon.

[el_koraco]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

this?


Setting up apport (1.20.1-0ubuntu3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/default/apport ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing apport (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apport-kde:
apport-kde depends on apport (>= 0.41); however:
Package apport is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apport-kde (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[wizard10000]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

Yup - that.

A fix has already been committed and I figure it should be in the repos shortly.

[blobfish]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

Just got mine fixed, but I had to

sudo apt-get remove --reinstall apport apport-kde

to get past the failed install.

[Snowhog]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

That doesn't fix the problem - it just removes apport and apport-kde -- it doesn't reinstall either of them. :P

EDIT: However, within a few minutes of the dist-upgrade, I was informed of another update. That dist-upgrade reinstalled apport and apport-kde.

[wizard10000]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

On my machines both 32- and 64-bit installed correctly but refuse to start.

[el_koraco]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

Installed correctly and starting up just fine here.

[wizard10000]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

Not here. purged all and removed /etc/apport and /usr/share/apport and reinstalled. No joy

[el_koraco]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

That's pretty weird. I'd say file a bug report, but that would be just cruel. You should probably get on the bug report lists and report you issues.

[wizard10000]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

Found the problem in the bug report here -

https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/767498

and fixed it.

/etc/default/apport had

enabled=0

in there. Changed it to 1 and apport started on both machines.

Strange.

[Snowhog]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

Thanks for that. Checked mine, and it was set not to start. Fixed that.

[wizard10000]

Re: apport broken in both 32- and 64-bit

Thanks for that. Checked mine, and it was set not to start. Fixed that.

Like I said - the developers got tired of those pesky bug reports