apport-kde hangs - reporting crashes stopped working

[Christian Schürer-Waldheim]

Binary package hint: apport

I can't say for how long this problem occurs, but since some weeks reporting crashes in kde (running up to date karmic) does not work anymore. When an application crashes, apport pops up and asks if I want to send a crash report. When I agree, it collects data about the crash and asks me again if I want to send the report. Normally, the browser would open a little later, opening launchpad. But this does not work anymore - just nothing happens. The apport process stays in memory. After some time, there are more and more apport-kde processes, e.g. after about 5h uptime:

1000 4311 0.0 2.7 441932 84652 ? S 17:56 0:02 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-kde
1000 4322 0.0 1.3 262188 41712 ? S 17:56 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-kde
1000 4412 0.0 1.3 262180 41712 ? S 17:57 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-kde
1000 4918 0.0 1.3 262188 41720 ? S 18:00 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-kde

I tried to find out with strace what these processes are doing:

Process 4311 attached - interrupt to quit
restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>

It only helps to kill these processes with pkill.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Thank you for reporting this. This has already been reported as bug 405378 so I am marking this as a duplicate.