[Bug 59993] Re: apport stuck in loop

[Caroline Ford]

Needs Info -Fix Released

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
   Status: Needs Info = Fix Released

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[Bug 59993] Re: apport stuck in loop

[Scott Robinson]

Confirmed fixed.

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[Bug 59993] Re: apport stuck in loop

[Martin Pitt]

If you already want to test the fixed-harder packages:

  deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/packages/apport/ ./

 How do I get a pending crash log to occur at login? I could reliably test a 
 couple
 other bugs if I could do that...

This is a fast and convenient way that doesn't even require you to
restart your session:

1. killall update-notifier
2. bash
3. kill -SEGV $$
4. Press Alt+F2 and start 'update-notifier'

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[Bug 59993] Re: apport stuck in loop

[Martin Pitt]

This should fix the exception:

 apport (0.21) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * apport: Keep a partially written report with '000' permissions, and only
 chmod it to 0600 when it is fully written. This stops update-notifier from
 picking up half-written reports and get activated several times.
 Closes: LP#59988
   * apport: Add the executable path to the first line of logging.
   * apport: Run the complete code under control of the general exception
 fallback handler.
   * debian/apport.default: Increase maximum core size to 200 MB, to also catch
 Firefox and Evolution core dumps.
   * apport_utils.py, find_file_package(): Before searching the dpkg database
 (which is expensive), check if the executable path matches a whitelist of
 path prefixes. This replaces the weaker blacklist (/tmp and /home) in
 apport itself.
   * gtk/apport-gtk: Show a progress dialog while checking for bug patterns and
 execute report_search_bug_patterns() in a separate thread, so that the UI
 is not potentially blocked for a long time.
   * apport: Gracefully abort if we cannot readlink /proc/pid/exe, instead of
 falling over with an exception. Closes: LP#59993
   * debian/rules: Use 'multiuser' instead of 'defaults' for dh_installinit.
 Clean up the unnecessary rc symlinks in postinst and add appropriate
 sysv-rc dependency.

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[Bug 59993] Re: apport stuck in loop

[Martin Pitt]

Scott, can you please take a look at bug 59988? Does that resemble your
experience? I'll fix that bug as soon as uploads are opened again after
knot-3.

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[Bug 59993] Re: apport stuck in loop

[Scott Robinson]

It does. I guess I'll wait.

How do I get a pending crash log to occur at login? I could reliably
test a couple other bugs if I could do that...

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