Public bug reported:
If you choose the option in ubuntu-bug to report a bug against "no particular
package", if you follow the instructions at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs you will fail if the bug is not
within a currently-running process.
In my case, I wanted to report a bug in whatever it is that handles an Ubuntu
upgrade.
When started as recommended on the above web page, ubuntu-bug demands a PID,
and without one, it won't work.
I suggest adding some text to the ReportingBugs page to explain that if you
can't provide a process ID, you can provide a package name. And that if you
don't know the package name (e.g. if you were trying to report a bug against
ubuntu-bug itself), you can do a search to find what package the command comes
from, like so:
apt-cache search ubuntu-bug (which tells you that ubuntu-bug is in the
reportbug package, therefore you would have to run ubuntu-bug reportbug).
lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04
apt-cache policy reportbug
reportbug:
Installed: 4.10.2ubuntu1
Candidate: 4.10.2ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 4.10.2ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: reportbug 4.10.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-36.79-generic-pae 2.6.32.46+drm33.20
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-36-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 11 17:18:22 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: reportbug
** Affects: reportbug (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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