Public bug reported:

This occurred on a machine that has been dist-upgraded from
breezy to etch and all the points in between, with official sources.

If apport is installed, the /etc/cron.daily/apport script tries to run
a find over /var/crash and that directory may not actually be there.
This generates irritating emails to root.

If the other bits of apport create /var/crash at the time of the first
crash after installation, then perhaps the cron.daily needs this patch:

--- apport.old      2006-10-10 00:49:47.000000000 +1000
+++ apport 2006-11-13 15:50:17.000000000 +1100
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh -e
 # clean all crash reports which are older than a week.
+[ -d /var/crash ] || exit 0
 find /var/crash -mindepth 1 -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
 find /var/crash -mindepth 1 -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f


dpkg -l  python-problem-report python-apport-utils apport
ii  apport         0.28           automatically generate crash reports for deb
ii  python-apport- 0.28           apport crash report handling functions
ii  python-problem 0.28           python library to handle problem reports

** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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doesn't create /var/crash (?)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/71599

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