Has been no repeat of this issue in the last week since using the newer kernel.
Marking as "won't fix" as probably a unique combination of circumstances that would be difficult / not worthwhile to reproduce. ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Visibility changed to: Private -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977111 Title: apport segfault and apport-gtk 4 hour lockup Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Background: Precise (beta) nautilus crash caused apport-gtk to startup, but it never completes - running for 4 hours and going nowhere Attempt to use apport-cli to analyse the apport-gtk problem resulted in segfault (strace attached) Tail of the strace from apport-cli: open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\320(\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=88384, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f83c6f10000 mmap(NULL, 2184216, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f83c55a8000 mprotect(0x7f83c55bd000, 2093056, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x7f83c57bc000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x14000) = 0x7f83c57bc000 close(3) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f83c6f0f000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f83c6f0e000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f83c6f0d000 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f83c6f0e700) = 0 mprotect(0x7f83c5b72000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7f83c57bc000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7f83c5e78000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7f83c6095000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7f83c6aca000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7f83c6436000, 110592, PROT_READ) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++ About libgcc_s.so.1: file /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=0x823674dee645bf71990af3e79fa1f5ab242b8eab, stripped dpkg -l libgcc1 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-========================-========================-================================================================ ii libgcc1 1:4.6.3-1ubuntu4 GCC support library I am running kernel 3.2.0-20 rather than 3.2.0-22 (latest), but will reboot to latest now, and see if problem occurs again in next week. cat /etc/*elease DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu precise (development branch)" uname -a Linux fx62z8g 3.2.0-20-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 27 16:42:26 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/977111/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp