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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is fixed in trunk but hasn't landed in Utopic yet.

 $ bzr log -r2858.1.1 -p                
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 2858.1.1
committer: Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
branch nick: handle-disappearing-processes
timestamp: Mon 2014-09-22 15:45:54 +0100
message:
  Handle the parent process going away while we're attempting to read from proc.
diff:
=== modified file 'data/recoverable_problem'
--- data/recoverable_problem    2014-05-14 20:58:42 +0000
+++ data/recoverable_problem    2014-09-22 14:45:54 +0000
@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@
         report.pid = os.getppid()
 
     # Grab PID info right away, as we don't know how long it'll stick around
-    report.add_proc_info(report.pid)
+    try:
+        report.add_proc_info(report.pid)
+    except ValueError as e:
+        # The process may have gone away before we could get to it.
+        if e.message == 'invalid process':
+            return
+
 
     # Get the info on the bug
     items = sys.stdin.read().split('\0')


** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1345569

Title:
  recoverable_problem crashed with ValueError in add_proc_info():
  invalid process

Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Well, I'm not a system engineer and I haven't knowlegde why that
  trouble happen here.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: apport 2.14.4-0ubuntu2
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-031600rc4-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.4-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Jul 20 13:54:54 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/recoverable_problem
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-05 (15 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140520)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/apport/recoverable_problem -p 14110
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANGUAGE=pl
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/recoverable_problem', '-p', '14110']
  SourcePackage: apport
  Title: recoverable_problem crashed with ValueError in add_proc_info(): invalid process
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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