Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: apport
I am extremely frustrated right now; NetworkManager, modem-manager,
linux itself, and apport are giving me a real bad time. I haven't been
this frustrated with a Linux install since... since I was using
Slackware, a *long* time ago.
When I try to connect via my 3g modem, NetworkManager gets modem-manager
to start pppd, but then dies, leaving pppd running but not actually
useful. When it dies, apport helpfully pops up to let me know, so I tell
it to submit a bug: after all, ppp0 is up, so I'm connect, right? Wrong!
The modem driver is in a wacko state, unplugging the modem crashes
linux, so there is nothing I can do to get the connection back and send
the report, and there is nothing in the apport window that lets me save
the report for later. Grrr!
After I reboot, reading apport's documentation I realize that crash
reports are saved in /var/crashes, and yes, there it is. Great, right?
Wrong! ubuntu-bug says "no such file or directory", and apport-cli adds
"*** Invalid problem report" before that. Yay, usability!
No.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 10 21:13:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apport 1.7-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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apport should let me save a report for later if the upload fails, or at least
let me reuse a crash
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411723
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