[Reportbug-maint] Bug#626930: reportbug: bug report silently discarded, after postfix error
Stefan Monnier
monnier at iro.umontreal.ca
Mon May 16 13:00:02 UTC 2011
Package: reportbug
Version: 5.1.1
Severity: normal
A recent problem between postfix and glibc packages causes sendmail to
fail to send email, signalling an error instead. The problem here,
is that when I tried to report it with reportbug, reportbug (with gtk2 ui)
just exited silently without telling me about the failure to send the
message. Luckily, I started reportbug from the command line rather than
from the menu, so I did get to see the:
postdrop: fatal: getrlimit: Operation not permitted
sendmail: warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1
sendmail: fatal: foo at bar.ca(2376): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: Success
message. But this message should have been shown more prominently to the
user (and maybe an option should be offered to use another path the send
the bugreport in this case).
Stefan
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="zile"
INTERFACE="text"
** /home/monnier/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "3.20"
mode standard
ui text
email "monnier at iro.umontreal.ca"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.36.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii apt 0.8.14.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii python 2.6.6-14 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-reportbug 5.1.1 Python modules for interacting wit
reportbug recommends no packages.
Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available)
pn debsums <none> (no description available)
pn dlocate <none> (no description available)
ii emacs22-bin-common 22.3+1-1.2+b1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii emacs23-bin-common 23.3+1-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc
ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii postfix [mail-transport-ag 2.8.2-1+b1 High-performance mail transport ag
ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-4+b1 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-gtkspell 2.25.3-9 Python bindings for the GtkSpell l
pn python-urwid <none> (no description available)
ii python-vte 1:0.24.3-2+b1 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1-2 desktop integration utilities from
-- no debconf information
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