apport overwrite previous crash report if the same binary crashes again

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Binary package hint: apport

Due to the naming scheme of crash file (path_to_binary.uid.crash) apport can just save one report for a particular program crash.
When during a run, the same program crashes more than one time at different places, and the reports are not filed immediately, then the previous crashes reports are lost.

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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apport 1.21-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-0.1-generic 3.0.0-rc2
Uname: Linux 3.0-0-generic i686
ApportLog:

Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 16 10:53:31 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-05-16 (30 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastian Geiger (lanoxx)]

I think this bug might be invalid. There is another bug which claims exacly the opposite thing. Also on my computer apport does not overwrite existing crash reports.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/160999

[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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for apport (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]