Public bug reported: apport process consumes 90% of CPU while collecting information to reporting bug. This makes the desktop unresponsive and is quite annoying.
Unfortunately I have no way of providing any addition information that might help you reproduce/debug this problem ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: apport 1.23-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686 ApportLog: ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CrashReports: 0:1000:1000:1077099:2012-01-30 04:35:02.316601688 +0100:2012-01-30 04:34:57.500601789 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_lib_firefox-trunk-12.0a1_plugin-container.1000.crash 0:1000:1000:27426967:2012-01-31 17:49:01.906864545 +0100:2012-01-31 17:47:50.475408936 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_lib_firefox-trunk-12.0a1_firefox-trunk.1000.crash 600:1000:1000:448255:2012-01-27 14:36:29.996509000 +0100:2012-01-27 14:36:41.744510059 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_lib_gvfs_gvfsd-archive.1000.crash 600:0:0:922873:2012-01-26 17:39:07.030810000 +0100:2012-01-26 17:39:08.030810000 +0100:/var/crash/_sbin_plymouthd.0.crash 600:0:0:21662542:2012-02-02 20:00:22.291753000 +0100:2012-02-03 06:36:33.205992784 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_wireshark.0.crash Date: Fri Feb 3 14:52:08 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: apport UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-24 (102 days ago) modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2012-01-09T00:16:14.209401 ** Affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/926063 Title: Apport process consumes 90% of CPU while reporting crashes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/926063/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs