Comment 8 for bug 1438758

Hi Martin,

I'll get you the stack trace when I'm back on my laptop a bit later.

Agreed about C.UTF-8 if we know it's going to be around on all systems running 14.04 and higher (can't remember when it was actually introduced in glibc).

As for the command stuff, that's because LXC abstract sockets are always:
 @<lxcpath>/<container name>/command

So all LXC abstract sockets are guaranteed to end with /command, the rest of the path is user controlled.

As for HOME, I guess we can take it out entirely too, I don't believe it's actually needed here, I just tend to always set PATH and HOME after I clear the environment, but not having it should be fine too.

We shouldn't depend on python3-lxc, only use it if it's available on the system, which it will on any system with LXC installed as lxc-ls uses it. I actually expect going through python3-lxc to be significantly faster than shelling out to a binary which ends up calling the exact same API call. Using the python3 binding also allows us to do some sanity checks before interacting with a container (the may_control and state part).

Note that my patch properly deals with the case where python3-lxc isn't available and also only imports it in the case where the crash comes from a container, so it shouldn't impact apport's performance at all in the standard case.