[Bug 999440] [NEW] Some retraces fail, but hang rather than exiting

[Tom Haddon]

Public bug reported:

We get some retraces that just hang, but don't exit - these seem to be
all (from what I've seen so far) from the 11.10 release. I've discussed
this with Evan a few weeks back, and am filing as a bug to see if
there's something that can be done within the retracer to manage this.
We can do it externally with a cron job to kill gdb processes older than
a certain age (what should be the threshold?) but it would be cleaner if
it can be done within the application.

** Affects: whoopsie-daisy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: canonical-losa-ue

** Tags added: canonical-losa-ue

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Title:
  Some retraces fail, but hang rather than exiting

Status in “whoopsie-daisy” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  We get some retraces that just hang, but don't exit - these seem to be
  all (from what I've seen so far) from the 11.10 release. I've
  discussed this with Evan a few weeks back, and am filing as a bug to
  see if there's something that can be done within the retracer to
  manage this. We can do it externally with a cron job to kill gdb
  processes older than a certain age (what should be the threshold?) but
  it would be cleaner if it can be done within the application.

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