9 years later and still broken! Can confirm still exists in 16.04. Does no one develop on Ubuntu or has every developer in the last nine years manually removed apport?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160999 Title: Apport doesn't overwrite existing core files Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: While debugging some code, I noticed that existing core files aren't being overwritten when they should be. According to core(5), the following file should be overwritten, but it's not: bam:/tmp$ id -un gerald bam:/tmp$ ls -l core -rw------- 1 gerald gerald 3407872 2007-10-30 21:22 core bam:/tmp$ date Thu Nov 8 09:36:23 PST 2007 bam:/tmp$ ./coretst Segmentation fault (core dumped) bam:/tmp$ ls -l core -rw------- 1 gerald gerald 3407872 2007-10-30 21:22 core Creating the initial core file works fine: bam:/tmp$ rm core bam:/tmp$ ./coretst Segmentation fault (core dumped) bam:/tmp$ ls -l core -rw------- 1 gerald gerald 163840 2007-11-08 09:36 core bam:/tmp$ date Thu Nov 8 09:36:49 PST 2007 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/160999/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
