Yes I noticed full gnome-shell core files are often 500MB (as is the RSS), though they seem to be mostly zeroes as evidenced by the reported filesystem usage. Not saying that's a bug, just an observation.
-- 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/2015857 Title: Repeatedly unusable truncated crash files Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Repeatedly unusable truncated crash files: Bug 2012974, bug 2015842, bug 2015140, bug 2012075 Based on my own testing, the problems seems to happen if multiple binaries crash simultaneously (like at logout). One crash file gets fully written and the other is incomplete. If I remove apport from the equation and just get the kernel to dump core files then the core files are always written reliably (should be several hundred MB in the case of gnome-shell). Running `apport-retrace -g $crash` on the .crash files will fail with "/tmp/apport_core_[...] is not a core dump: file format not recognized" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/2015857/+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
