Bug report corrupted and broken?

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I tried to search from the Ubuntu Software Center, and USC quit on its own, and Ubuntu asked me to report the bug. When I tried to collect and send the report, this is the error code I got, telling me the bug report was "corrupted":

OSError('Invalid core dump: BFD: Warning: /tmp/apport_core_k0d_6whr is truncated: expected core file size >= 244244480, found: 133234688.',)

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[Str3tLeer (str3tleer)]

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I'm seeing the same thing.

ProcCmdline
/usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

UnreportableReason:
This problem report is damaged and cannot be processed.
OSError('Invalid core dump: BFD: Warning: /tmp/apport_core_k0d5b924 is truncated: expected core file size >=72568832, found: 23134208.')

I started getting this only after upgrading kernel to HWE (kernel 4.8). Before there were no issues.

Hope this helps iron out the bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

I regularly have this (my gnome-shell oopses every morning, probably because of an extension somewhere). Attached is a screenshot from apport-gtk.