Whoopsie working is blocking shutdown
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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whoopsie (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Summary
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In case there is a crashing application as a result of the shutdown command (Menu -> shutdown ), the shutdown process hangs with the message:
`A stop job is running for crash report submission daemon ( [x]s / 1min 30s)`
Steps to reproduce
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- Start an application, that will crash on computer-shutdown (I use easystrokes or VIPole).
- Shutdown computer via menu (not command line (might work as well, but untested))
- EXPECTED: computer shuts down quickly; possible crash reports will be sent the next time the computer gets shut down
- or EXPECTED WORKAROUND: The waiting process can be canceled by Ctrl+C
- ACTUAL: The user can only wait. Cancellation (Ctrl+C / Ctrl+\) won't work. Only hardware shutdown can cancel the process.
Note
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Aside from whoopsie specifically, this waiting period with no cancellation is a general problem, I think. In case several processes prevent the shutdown like whoopsie does, the user has to wait several minutes (about 15min in one extreme case).
A solution for this general problem would be the introduction of a screen to allow users to hard-shutdown any program (like MS Windows does).
lsb_release -rd
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Description: Ubuntu 20.10
Release: 20.10
apt-cache policy whoopsie
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whoopsie:
Installed: 0.2.72.2
Candidate: 0.2.72.2
Version table:
*** 0.2.72.2 500
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
0.2.72 500
500 http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: whoopsie 0.2.72.2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-52-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat May 8 16:01:13 2021
RelatedPackageV
SourcePackage: whoopsie
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I'd like to emphasize, that this bug results in the disability to shutdown and therefore enforces a hardware shutdown in certain situation.
I reported it a little while ago, but it's present for several years.