whoopsie uses 100% CPU indefinitely on chrome crash file

[Fergal Daly]

$@ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 23.04
Release: 23.04

$@ apt-cache policy whoopsie
whoopsie:
  Installed: 0.2.77
  Candidate: 0.2.77
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.77 500
        500 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

TL;DR whoopsie will happily consume 100% for hours in what seems like a pretty futile attempt to deal with massive crash files. It should be more aware of what is a realistic crash to upload.

This has happened a couple of times today, so I searched, found

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1245078/woopsie-upload-all-process-consumes-cpu-100/1296481#1296481

which suggested looking in /var/crash/

where I found

$@ ls -lh /var/crash/
total 8.3G
-rw-r----- 1 fergal whoopsie 8.3G May 8 23:03 _opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.crash

I don't know what whoopsie was doing but I doubt that was ever going to be productive and I cannot have a service that is going to occasionally use 100% CPU for hours.

Here's what `top` had to say before I killed it

  94802 root 20 0 11.7g 11.3g 58624 R 100.0 36.6 108:11.76 whoopsie-upload

So it had been trying for 108 minutes and was using 11G of RAM.

I would love to enable crash reporting but this is unacceptable. I've deleted the crash file and uninstalled whoopsie. I'll happily reinstall it if it gains some safeguards against this kind of thing.

[Alex Babajanyan (earthmapspictures)]

It is happening to me too.

[Peter Cornelius (aranaea)]

+1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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