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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This still affects recent versions of Ubuntu.

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Triaged

** Tags added: trusty vivid

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Title:
  not all package install failures generate a crash report

Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I was trying to install the package crash-in-postinst package from the
  following PPA, https://launchpad.net/~daisy-pluckers/+archive/daisy-
  seeds/+packages.  This package is specifically designed to fail during
  the post installation due to a maintainer script error.  I was
  surprised to discover that software-center did not create a package
  install failure crash file in this case.  I did receive an error
  message from aptdaemon that said the "Package operation failed".
  Digging into the software-center code I found the following:

          # lintian errors are ignored and not send to apport_recoverable_error
          # and dpkg errors as well as they will already be recorded separately
          # by apt itself
          if error_code in (enums.ERROR_INVALID_PACKAGE_FILE,
                                  enums.ERROR_PACKAGE_MANAGER_FAILED):
              return

  For some reason these errors are not being recorded when the package
  manager has failed.  However, if one uses 'apt-get install' or
  'aptdcon' to install the same package you will get a crash report.  So
  I believe it is something with software-center itself that is
  preventing these crash reports from being generated.

  Apport provides a package_hook script, /usr/share/apport/package_hook,
  for creating package install failures so we could call that from
  software-center.  I've written a patch that does just that.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: software-center 13.05-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/installbackend_impl/aptd.py usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/paths.py]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-1.8-generic 3.10.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 3.10.0-1-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 2e6ecd139611830c78226ad04ff4c093
  CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
  Date: Mon Jul  1 15:47:33 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-11-17 (956 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-04 (27 days ago)

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