[apport] apport-gtk crashed with OSError in _execute_child()

[Tomasz Dominikowski]

Binary package hint: apport

it just started crashing repeatedly, I had to tick the thing about not reporting it anymore.

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Wed Feb 14 18:44:28 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: apport-gtk 0.54
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
ProcCwd: /home/tom
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk']
SourcePackage: apport
Uname: Linux srebrny 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Whoops:

    self.pid = os.fork()
OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

Pretty hard to fix that properly. We could just circumvent it by terminating apport UI if we run out of memory.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in bzr head, will upload soon.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 apport (0.57) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * apport/ui.py: Intercept ENOMEM and fail gracefully; there is little else
     we can do at that point, and there is no point in presenting a crash
     report for this. (LP: #85155)
   * apport/ui.py: Ignore KeyError when deleting the CoreDump field on sending
     a reduced report. This Should Not Happen™, but nevertheless did.
     (LP: #86083)
   * gtk/apport-gtk, qt4/apport-qt: Intercept ImportError for the non-builtin
     Python modules. This usually happens for crashes when there is a
     dist-upgrade active and some Python packages have not been configured yet.
     (LP: #86007)
   * apport/ui.py: If the problem report does not apply to a packaged program,
     and we have an ExecutablePath, mention it in the error message for easier
     debugging.
   * apport/python_hook.py: Resolve symbolic links in ExecutablePath.
     (LP: #85529)