Whoopsie continually relaunching
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
James Henstridge | ||
whoopsie (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
whoopsie-preferences (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
James Henstridge |
Bug Description
Today for the first time, and coincidentally looking for a different setting, I went to the Settings->Privacy dialogue. I was also (coincidentally for a different reason, relating to #1720149) already tailing /var/log/syslog to a terminal.
Immediately on opening that dialogue, the syslog tail flooded with whoopsie continually relaunching, causing enough work to raise the fan speeds. This is a representative section from towards the end of me letting it, before I killed the service, with some necessary viciousness. Specifically
systemctl stop whoopsie
(didn't stop it)
systemctl disable whoopsie
(didn't stop it)
(find pid for whoopsie's root process and kill it)
(that stopped it)
Also for good measure ensured the automatic bug reporting option in the privacy settings dialog was set to manual, which I think was done anyway when I disabled whoopsie, though the dialog wasn't on top at the time for me to be sure. It had been set to automatic when I first opened the dialog.
Snippet from syslog attached. It was just repeating this continually for several minutes before I stopped it.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: whoopsie 0.2.58
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashReports:
664:1000:
640:1000:
640:1000:
600:111:
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 29 10:00:34 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-30 (60 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
RelatedPackageV
SourcePackage: whoopsie
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-22 (37 days ago)
Related branches
- Jeremy Bícha: Approve
-
Diff: 158 lines (+48/-23)2 files modifieddebian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/patches/privacy-panel-whoopsie.patch (+41/-23)
- Daisy Pluckers: Pending requested
-
Diff: 81 lines (+27/-13)3 files modifiedconfigure.ac (+1/-1)
debian/changelog (+14/-0)
src/whoopsie-preferences.c (+12/-12)
Changed in whoopsie (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
Changed in whoopsie-preferences (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: |
added: rls-bb-incoming removed: rls-aa-incoming |
I was able to recreate this but had to move through different options in the Settings control panel to trigger it e.g. switch from something back to Privacy. Eventually, switch to the Privacy panel would start the constant reloading. However, as soon as I closed the Settings control panel whoopise quit restarting.
Does closing the control panel stop whoopsie from acting crazy?