Apport failed to create CoreDump for X.org crash (with no reason)

[Daniel Hahler]

X.org crashed, but the report is not useful, because it's missing the CoreDump.

I would have expected at least some indication about why the core dump is missing in apport's log.

apport.log:

ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: called for pid 3212, signal 11, core limit 18446744073709551615
ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: ignoring implausibly big core limit, treating as unlimited
ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: executable: /usr/bin/Xorg (command line "/usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch")
ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: is_closing_session(): no DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in environment
ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:44:01 2014: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apport 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportLog:
 ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: called for pid 3212, signal 11, core limit 18446744073709551615
 ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: ignoring implausibly big core limit, treating as unlimited
 ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: executable: /usr/bin/Xorg (command line "/usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch")
 ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:43:30 2014: is_closing_session(): no DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in environment
 ERROR: apport (pid 12840) Wed Oct 29 15:44:01 2014: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
 640:1000:114:17150249:2014-10-28 23:11:53.925286626 +0100:2014-10-28 23:11:31.129285727 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_shutter.1000.crash
 640:0:114:50308:2014-10-29 15:43:59.255368709 +0100:2014-10-29 15:45:48.571371376 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_Xorg.0.crash
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 29 16:10:53 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-28 (883 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-01 (181 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2014-05-07T17:51:23.631588

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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