On 26/09/12 15:23, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
On 09/26/2012 06:02 AM, Brendan Donegan wrote:
On 25/09/12 15:54, Brian Murray wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:44:25AM +0200, Gabor Toth wrote:
Just a question here.
From time to time I get a system crash window popping up and saying
that there was a crash. I click on send the report - of course - and
then it comes up with another window saying "The crash belongs to a
package that is not installed."
I do not get it. How can a package crash that is not even installed?
Can anyone light my way in this?
Knowing what the contents of /var/crash is would be helpful in
determining which application crashed. For example:
/var/crash/_usr_share_apport_apportcheckresume.1000.crash
indicates the application /usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume crashed
and I know that is a part of apport. (You could check via dpkg -S
/usr/share/apport/apportcheckresume.) Then I can use apt-cache policy
to see if apport is installed:
apport:
Installed: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Candidate: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
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Something similar happens when the version of the package that
crashed does not match the one in the archive. It is intended to stop
bugs from being reported on old package versions, but the text is
deeply confusing. I wonder is it that?
Brendan, afaik, it's there to prevent reporting crashes against old
package versions (since the new version may have a fix, etc). Makes
sense of course -- what's confusing about the message?
Nicholas
I meant the text is deeply confusing if that is the reason for the
failure Gabor saw
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