apport has a big memory/process leak

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

Binary package hint: apport

When apport was trying to report a crash yesterday it generated so many processes, that took up so much memory that my system couldn't handle it & I had to do a 'sudo killall apport'.

ProblemType: Crash
ApportLog:

Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 12 02:09:50 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: apport 0.76.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron:

Signal: 11
SourcePackage: apport
StacktraceTop:
 ERR_load_SSL_strings ()
 SSL_load_error_strings ()
 init_ssl () from /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/_ssl.so
 _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule ()
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux middelvinger 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
?? ()
?? ()

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

This should be fixed for Gutsy, by only having one apport instance running at the same time.

I'm marking this as duplicate of 119622.