Keep getting "pipe failed"

[Simon McClenahan]

Whenever my eclipse program crashes and dissapears, or any other app it seems, apport seems to never catch the crash.

From kern.log:
Feb 19 11:09:21 xxxxx kernel: [ 7560.569837] Core dump to |/usr/share/apport/apport 11078 11 0 pipe failed

Feb 19 11:25:56 xxxxx kernel: [ 8554.272194] cupsd[5144]: segfault at 253 ip 00007f836267e7a3 sp 00007f835e699c28 error 4 in libdbus-1.so.3.7.2[7f836266c000+43000]
Feb 19 11:25:56 xxxxx kernel: [ 8554.272544] Core dump to |/usr/share/apport/apport 573 11 0 pipe failed

From syslog:
Feb 19 10:10:16 xxxxx kernel: [ 4017.087057] tracker-miner-f[2537]: segfault at a ip 00007f41bd13f47d sp 00007fff210a4de0 error 6 in libglib-2.0.so.0.3400.1[7f41bd0fb000+f5000]
Feb 19 10:10:16 xxxxx kernel: [ 4017.190199] Core dump to |/usr/share/apport/apport 2537 11 0 pipe failed

My apport.log file is empty. Last update was 8 days ago, from apport.log.1
ERROR: apport (pid 9303) Thu Jan 10 13:08:38 2013: called for pid 3119, signal 5, core limit 0
ERROR: apport (pid 9303) Thu Jan 10 13:08:38 2013: executable: /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory (command line "/usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory")
ERROR: apport (pid 9303) Thu Jan 10 13:08:39 2013: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 9303) Thu Jan 10 13:08:53 2013: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_lib_evolution_evolution-calendar-factory.1000.crash
ERROR: apport (pid 14206) Thu Jan 10 13:39:01 2013: called for pid 2755, signal 11, core limit 0
ERROR: apport (pid 14206) Thu Jan 10 13:39:01 2013: executable: /usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-fs (command line "/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-miner-fs")
ERROR: apport (pid 14206) Thu Jan 10 13:39:01 2013: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 14206) Thu Jan 10 13:42:12 2013: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_lib_tracker_tracker-miner-fs.1000.crash
ERROR: apport (pid 18139) Thu Jan 10 15:03:43 2013: called for pid 10012, signal 11, core limit 0
ERROR: apport (pid 18139) Thu Jan 10 15:03:43 2013: executable: /usr/bin/evolution (command line "evolution")
ERROR: apport (pid 18139) Thu Jan 10 15:03:43 2013: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 18139) Thu Jan 10 15:04:23 2013: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_evolution.1000.crash
ERROR: apport (pid 3491) Fri Jan 11 08:37:14 2013: called for pid 3294, signal 11, core limit 0
ERROR: apport (pid 3491) Fri Jan 11 08:37:14 2013: executable: /usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service (command line "/usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service")
ERROR: apport (pid 3491) Fri Jan 11 08:37:14 2013: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)

ERROR: apport (pid 3491) Fri Jan 11 08:37:16 2013: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_lib_indicator-datetime_indicator-datetime-service.1000.crash

$ ls -la /var/crash
total 8
drwxrwsrwt. 2 root whoopsie 4096 Feb 8 10:23 .
drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 4096 Feb 15 17:53 ..

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

The log output is not enough to debug this failure. Please reopen this bug in case you still experience it with a recent Ubuntu version.