Public bug reported: I've been testing multiple different kernels for bug 1218004, as a part of this process my system frequently experiences a kernel oops. Only occasionally, is a kernel oops crash file created for these crashes. This particular time the following happened:
Sep 24 09:47:42 localhost kernel: [ 330.255893] ubuntuone-syncd[2596]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f1e907d3300 sp 00007fff91549050 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7f1e90752000+1bd000] Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [ 341.887110] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070 Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [ 341.887197] IP: [<ffffffff811fbfd7>] show_vfsmnt+0x37/0x150 Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [ 341.887242] PGD 72b78067 PUD 6d306067 PMD 0 Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [ 341.887276] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP It looks like ubuntuone-syncd crashed and shortly after that I experienced a kernel oops. Looking in /var/crash we can see the following: $ ls -lctr /var/crash/ total 39532 -rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie 7141 Sep 18 10:10 linux-image-3.9.0-030900-generic.229283.crash -rw-r--r-- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 0 Sep 18 12:00 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.upload -rw-r--r-- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 0 Sep 18 12:02 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.upload -rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie 0 Sep 18 13:47 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.uploaded -rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie 0 Sep 18 13:47 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.uploaded -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 33668113 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_lib_ubuntuone-client_ubuntuone-syncdaemon.1000.crash -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 105043 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_lib_firefox_firefox.1000.crash -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 1770585 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.crash ---------- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 50209 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_gnome-session.1000.crash ---------- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 952256 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_easystroke.1000.crash -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 3851246 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.crash Something caused every crash file's modification time to change. The end result of this being that on the next reboot I received an apport- gtk notification for every crash, even ones that I experienced some time ago and that have already been uploaded. While this is an unlikely, it is rather annoying. ** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1229856 Title: kernel oops results in apport-gtk launching for every .crash file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1229856/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs