Apport reports crashes when it feels like it
Bug #429839 reported by
Harald Sitter
This bug affects 4 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apport
For some unknown reason Apport regularly does not choose to report a crash, but at some later point when it feels more comfortable (preferably when the user is actually doing work and not poking around for hot wallpapers). Also it tempts to re-report crashes.
For example see attached screenshot.
Java and vlc were last used 3 days ago, apport was a PITA back then (because I deliberately crashed them for a work project) yet today it shows the crashes again. I doubt this would make much sense for a user? At some point he might notice that he is wasting time trying to report the same bug over and over.
Revision history for this message
| Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| NeoFax (neofax99) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in apport (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| affects: | apport (Ubuntu) → update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu) |
Revision history for this message
| Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in update-notifier-kde (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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First this is a PITA and should be a showstopper for Karmic release (however it won't as Kubuntu is regulated to second run at Canonical). Every time I upgrade, I am assaulted by 100's of KDESUDO screen popups and then 100's of apport-kde screens, kinda like when I ran windows. And if this doesn't take the cake of punishing your customer, these spawned processes take up over 800M+ of memory and have to be pkill'd to free the memory. If the goal is to have grandma ever run K/X/Ubuntu, first we have to ensure this never happens. Sorry I sound contrite, but K/X/Ubuntu used to be a great distro! Now, it just seems to shove every new half-baked idea down my throat.