apport stucks in a loop

[magilus]

I moved my computer. After connecting my computer to my network again, I found out that there were several apport processes running consuming all the cpu usage. I then wanted to use apt but it hung reading the package list. I then chrootet in my system and found out that apt-get segfaults. I solved that by removing /var/cache/apt/*.bin.

Apport should not consume the whole cpu when apt has got that problem. This may be caused by apt-index-watcher.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The apt-index-watcher crash should be fixed in any case.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is tricky to handle for apport. It will never create more than 5 reports for the same binary in 24 hours, and it runs with nice level 5, so it already has some boundaries. OTOH we do want reports about apt-get crashing.

I think I will further narrow down the number of reports that may happen in a given timeframe.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 apport (0.22) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * apport_utils.py, report_add_proc_info(): Make 'interpreted script'
     detection more general to also work for mono programs.
   * test-apport: Check that non-packaged scripts do not generate a report.
   * apport: Call ic.collect_runtime_information() earlier and drop the local
     /proc/pid/exe examination, so that we get proper script detection. This
     avoids getting crash reports for non-packaged scripts (see test case
     change from above).
   * apport: Do not try to chmod the report file if we could not create it and
     output to stderr instead (this mainly affects local testing only).
   * apport_utils.py, find_file_package(): First grep the package lists whose
     names are a substring of the crashed binary name (or vice versa), to
     immensely speed up the package name determination in many cases.
   * apport: Drop the maximum number of consecutive crashes per executable
     from 5 to 2. 5 creates a too bad user experience and creates the
     impression that it will never stop. Closes: LP#61078

[magilus (magilus)]

great, thanks..