Getting error "!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv"

[Bryce Harrington]

Binary package hint: apport

Not sure if this is from apport itself, or from the linux source package apport hook, but I've not seen these error messages before, and they sound rather dire...

salisbury:~$ ubuntu-bug linux
salisbury:~$ Error: Couldn't find per display information

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

Error: Couldn't find per display information

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

Despite the error messages, the bug report was filed successfully. The only issue I noticed was that it mis-tagged the bug (reported separately), but I'm doubtful that has any relation to this error message.

I didn't see these errors when filing this bug report via 'ubuntu-bug apport', so I guess this is either caused by the dialogs used in the linux apport hook, or else something that the linux apport hook does specifically.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: apport 1.16-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-10.24-generic 2.6.37-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 19 14:00:09 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Oho, I spoke too soon.

Immediately after filing this bug report I went back to the terminal window and noticed it too was full of these odd error messages:

salisbury:~$ ubuntu-bug apport
salisbury:~$ Error: Couldn't find per display information

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

Error: Couldn't find per display information

###!!! [Parent][RPCChannel] Error: Channel error: cannot send/recv

... etc. another dozen lines or so ...

So, maybe not the linux source package, but rather apport or perhaps even firefox?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Seems I'm getting this error message on the console for general browsing, so guessing it comes from firefox.

I think since I didn't have firefox running when I ran ubuntu-bug, it started up a new instance of firefox. Any browsing activity seems to result in the error messages being printed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[drayl552002 (drayl552002-gmail)]

I switched from Debian squeeze to Debian Wheezy with LMDE and have experiancedthis error today no flash loading....I had never seen it before , what is the solution has it been fixed..