[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2017-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2017-03-13 Thread Michał Sawicz
** Project changed: qtubuntu => qtubuntu (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone To manage notifi

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-11-11 Thread Pat McGowan
** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Milestone: ww46-2015 => backlog -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to

Re: [Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 01:07:16PM -, Martin Pitt wrote: > Steve Langasek [2015-10-22 18:11 -]: > > > * If we really want to dump, we could investigate into sendfile. I'm not > > > * entirely sure that it works with data coming in via stdin, but it's > > > * worth a try as we would av

Re: [Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-10-23 Thread Martin Pitt
Steve Langasek [2015-10-22 18:11 -]: > > * If we really want to dump, we could investigate into sendfile. I'm not > > * entirely sure that it works with data coming in via stdin, but it's > > * worth a try as we would avoid the kernel -> userspace copy. > > This is an interesting suggest

Re: [Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 03:27:59PM -, Thomas Voß wrote: > So a few thoughts: > * Releasing graphics buffers in case of SIGSEGV seems to be quite > dangerous as we are dealing with potentially corrupted memory. I > don't think we should take this approach. Why is this "quite dangero

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-10-22 Thread Thomas Voß
@Pat: Not yet, on my list. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-10-22 Thread Thomas Voß
So a few thoughts: * Releasing graphics buffers in case of SIGSEGV seems to be quite dangerous as we are dealing with potentially corrupted memory. I don't think we should take this approach. * It would be nice to have the ability to skip core dumping and instead just produce a threaded sta

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-10-22 Thread Pat McGowan
@thomas have you discussed a new approach for crash analysis? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone To m

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-10-07 Thread Pat McGowan
** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Milestone: ww40-2015 => ww46-2015 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-15 Thread Gerry Boland
** Changed in: qtubuntu Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone To man

Re: [Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:45:39PM -, Gerry Boland wrote: > Ok, task is for Qt clients to intercept the sigsegv signal, and in a > handler close the mir connection which should release all its video > buffers, then re-raise segv. Would it be of interest to have all mir > clients exhibit this be

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-15 Thread Gerry Boland
Ok, task is for Qt clients to intercept the sigsegv signal, and in a handler close the mir connection which should release all its video buffers, then re-raise segv. Would it be of interest to have all mir clients exhibit this behaviour by default? If so, should put this behaviour in "mirclient" I

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: qtmir (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: appo

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
it would generally not be appropriate for a library to install a signal handler, however. Is this something that will need support up and down the unity8 stack? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-10 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: qtmir (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: appo

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-10 Thread Michael Zanetti
Assigning down to QtMir as it does all the video buffer handling for unity8. ** Package changed: unity8 (Ubuntu) => qtmir (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: appor

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
opening a task on unity8, for discussion with the unity team about the possibility of unmapping video buffers from a SIGSEGV handler. ** Also affects: unity8 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-10 Thread Martin Pitt
Thanks for the nice summary Steve. I dropped the nice in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/revision/3003 . It might certainly improve things a bit, but if it takes long now it will still take long with this; this is a little optimization, not really a complete solution. We d

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-09 Thread Steve Langasek
some thoughts upon analysis of /usr/share/apport/apport: - apport does have support for blacklisting crash reporting for specific programs. For programs that are critical for the UI on the phone and which cause a hard lockup of the UI while the crash report is running, we could use this blackl

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2015-09-09 Thread Pat McGowan
** Also affects: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-image Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: canonical-devices-system-ima

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2014-03-24 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
It's estimated to have a moderate impact on a large portion of Ubuntu users. ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Also affects: apport Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: appo

[Bug 1278780] Re: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone

2014-02-12 Thread Dave Morley
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278780 Title: apport takes too long to write crash report, appears to lock up phone To