/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all:binascii.Error:/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all@250:main:collect_info:process_report:load:_decompress_line:b64decode

Bug #2015571 reported by errors.ubuntu.com bug bridge
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Bug Description

The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding apport. This problem was most recently seen with package version 2.23.1-0ubuntu3.1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/a189d218a5f51059f4a50e6ed8464326c6d96bb4 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 250, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 232, in main
    stamps = collect_info()
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 163, in collect_info
    res = process_report(r)
  File "/usr/share/apport/whoopsie-upload-all", line 77, in process_report
    r.load(f, binary="compressed")
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 146, in load
    bd, value = self._decompress_line(line, bd, value)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 296, in _decompress_line
    block = base64.b64decode(line)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/base64.py", line 87, in b64decode
    return binascii.a2b_base64(s)
binascii.Error: Invalid base64-encoded string: number of data characters (4061) cannot be 1 more than a multiple of 4
```

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
description: updated
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