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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's behaving as expected. If you run this as a non-adm user, then the
message in the CurrentDmesg: field will explain why it doesn't have real
contents, but it doesn't stop apport from working.

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  apport can't run dmesg

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The following is being inserted into my bug reports:

  CurrentDmesg: Error: command ['sh', '-c', 'dmesg | comm -13 --nocheck-
  order /var/log/dmesg -'] failed with exit code 1: comm:
  /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: apport 1.23-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/apport.log'
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct  4 03:32:17 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-09 (24 days ago)

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