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  1. Bug #1094218
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1094218

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Claude Durocher (claude-d) wrote : Re: lsb_release crashed with IOError in getstatusoutput(): [Errno 10] No child processes

I think it might be related to teamviewer 8 beta : at the same time I had a crash, I had the following entries in TV8 log :

2013/01/17 08:28:00.372 1909 3064986432 S0 CTerminalServer::getPathToApplicationExe: executable is /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/TeamViewer
2013/01/17 08:28:00.372 1909 3064986432 S0 CTerminalServer::StartGUIProcess() Filename for GUI process is /opt/teamviewer8/tv_bin/TeamViewer
2013/01/17 08:28:00.383 1909 3064986432 S0 CTerminalServer::StartGUIProcess() Event 5 sent to GUI.
2013/01/17 08:29:33.558 1909 3044014912 S0 CConnectionThread::PingRouter(): Router Ping started
2013/01/17 08:29:33.559 1909 3044014912 S0 CKeepAliveThreadServer::SyncClients(): Clients:
2013/01/17 08:29:33.669 1909 3044014912 S0 CT5 CConnectionThread::CmdPingRouter(): Router Pong Received with following Hops: 367561857 349518642

TV8 now has a daemon and I think it reconnects periodically. Also, one of TV8 scripts tvw_main runs lsb_release -a.

$ ll /var/crash/

total 20
drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 jan 17 08:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 jan 16 18:26 ../
-rw-r----- 1 claudio whoopsie 9240 jan 17 08:28 _usr_bin_lsb_release.1000.crash
-rw-rw-r-- 1 claudio whoopsie 0 jan 17 08:31 _usr_bin_lsb_release.1000.upload
-rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie 0 jan 17 08:44 _usr_bin_lsb_release.1000.uploaded