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Fix handle FileNotFoundError from os.getcwd()#828

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Related Bugzilla issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477455

What this PR does: This PR fixes a crash occurring at startup in reporter-bugzilla when the process is invoked from a directory that no longer exists.

Root Cause: When reporter-bugzilla is started, it attempts to fetch the current working directory using os.getcwd() (line 379). However, if the reporter is spawned from a temporary directory (e.g. an ABRT spool directory) that gets deleted before the Python process is fully initialized, the underlying getcwd(2) syscall fails with ENOENT, which in Python raises a FileNotFoundError. This causes the script to crash immediately.

python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reporter-bugzilla", line 379, in
dump_dir_name = os.getcwd()
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Fix: Wrapped the os.getcwd() call in a try/except block to catch the FileNotFoundError. If the error occurs, it falls back to / as a safe placeholder directory.

This is perfectly safe because dump_dir_name will be properly overridden shortly after by the required -d DIR option during argument parsing (or it will fail gracefully downstream with a proper libreport error if no dump directory is provided).

Testing done:

Verified that reporter-bugzilla no longer crashes with a traceback when run from a deleted directory.
Checked that normal execution via the -d parameter continues to work flawlessly.

When the process is started from a directory that has been deleted
(e.g. a temporary ABRT spool directory removed before the reporter
is invoked), os.getcwd() raises FileNotFoundError (ENOENT).

Wrap the call in a try/except and fall back to '/' as a safe
placeholder. The real dump directory is always supplied via the
-d option and will override this default during argument parsing.
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ghost commented May 20, 2026

@msrb Could you take a look at this?

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AdamWill commented May 27, 2026

The diagnosis of the problem is likely correct, but I don't think the fix is. We can't just assume that -d will be passed. If it's not, we'll wind up trying to do stuff in /, which will fail if we're not root and make a mess if we are. I've sent #829 as an alternative.

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Further note: the PR was created by an unreliable and possibly rogue autonomous AI system. I do think in this case its diagnosis is likely correct, though - I verified the alleged behavior myself. It's quite easy to do - create a directory, run python3 in it, wipe the directory from another tab, then do os.getcwd() in the python shell, it'll raise FileNotFoundError. I think my PR is a better fix for this, though.

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