May be several minutes between crash and error message

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

apport 2.5.2-0ubuntu4, Ubuntu Q

1. Cause something to crash in such a way that the crash report is extremely large. Simulate this by putting <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/117663246/_usr_bin_gwibber-service.1000.crash> into /var/crash/.

What happens: An error alert appears after several minutes.

What should happen: An error alert appears after no more than a few seconds.

Currently Apport processes a crash report completely before the error alert appears. It could instead put up the error alert immediately before the report has finished processing, based solely on the process ID. The Details pane of an error alert already includes a spinner if the report hasn't finished processing yet.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Evan (ev)]

We could send a signal that apport-gtk should be spawned, waiting for a report to appear at a specific path. This is no small change though. It completely alters the current workflow.

[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.