Bug 1900982

Summary: Cannot report crash: "Package NVR contains illegal characters"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Juan Orti <jorti>
Component: abrtAssignee: Matej Grabovsky <mgrabovs>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 33CC: abrt-devel-list, abrt-sig, jakub, jmilan, mgrabovs, michal.toman, mmarusak, msuchy, redhat
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Description Juan Orti 2020-11-24 07:20:06 UTC
Description of problem:
When reporting a crash of the octave package, I get this error and I cannot report it:

OcurriĆ³ un error en el lado del servidor en 'https://retrace.fedoraproject.org'
Respuesta HTTP inesperada del servidor: 403
Package NVR contains illegal characters

Translation:
A server-side error happened in 'https://retrace.fedoraproject.org'
Unexpected HTTP response from the server: 403
Package NVR contains illegal characters

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt-2.14.4-7.fc33.x86_64
abrt-gui-2.14.4-7.fc33.x86_64
libreport-2.14.0-13.fc33.x86_64
octave-5.2.0-7.fc33.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install octave, it crash easily for me after a few interactions.
2. Try to report the crash.

Actual results:
A server-side error happened in 'https://retrace.fedoraproject.org'
Unexpected HTTP response from the server: 403
Package NVR contains illegal characters

Expected results:
Bug reported

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matej Grabovsky 2020-11-24 11:44:53 UTC
I have proposed a patch upstream: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/1541

We will be doing a new release of ABRT shortly, so the fix should
appear in Fedora 33 soon.

Comment 2 Christian Kujau 2020-11-26 09:32:13 UTC
This appears to be reproducible for random packages quite easily, but I'm glad that a fix is in the works:

$ ksh
$ kill -SEGV $$
### 1003534 Function backtrace:
1   (null) + 94481610400271
2   (null) + 139625335417440
3   kill + 11
4   (null) + 94481610481865
5   (null) + 94481610480526
6   (null) + 94481610579985
7   (null) + 94481610296692
8   (null) + 94481610142761
9   (null) + 94481610925592
10  __libc_start_main + 242
11  (null) + 94481610124718
Aborted (core dumped)

$ abrt list
Id           e302f6f
Component    ksh
Count        1
Time         2020-11-26 10:23:05
User id      1000 (christian)
Reported to
ABRT Server  https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/bthash/e779c35b4b4ac8213393b3ab784c98c68990a8ca


$ abrt report e302f6f
Reporting problem e302f6f

no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_GConf'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_vimrc_system'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_vimrc_user'
no actions matching this problem found for event 'collect_xsession_errors'
('report_uReport' completed successfully)
Ok to upload core dump? (It may contain sensitive data). If your answer is 'No', a stack trace will be generated locally. (It may download a huge amount of data). [y/N/f/e] y
Querying server settings
A server-side error occurred on 'https://retrace.fedoraproject.org'
Unexpected HTTP response from server: 403
Package NVR contains illegal characters
Do you want to generate a stack trace locally? (It may download a huge amount of data but reporting can't continue without stack trace). [y/N/f]
('analyze_CCpp' exited with 1)

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2021-11-04 16:55:01 UTC
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2021-11-30 17:16:11 UTC
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