[Bug 1720331] Re: Whoopsie continually relaunching

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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center -
1:3.26.1-0ubuntu6

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gnome-control-center (1:3.26.1-0ubuntu6) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ James Henstridge ]
  * Modify privacy-panel-whoopsie.patch:
    - use an asynchronous D-Bus call when toggling crash reporting, and
      avoid calling SetReportCrashes when setting to the current value.
      (LP: #1720331)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Modify ubuntu-gnome-version.patch:
    - Use Ubuntu's PRETTY_NAME instead of NAME from /etc/os-release.
      This is needed for the version number in About to end up as
      something like "Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS" instead of just "Ubuntu 18.04".

 -- James Henstridge <james.henstridge at canonical.com>  Fri, 27 Oct 2017
11:05:31 -0400

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  Whoopsie continually relaunching

Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in whoopsie-preferences package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports:
   664:1000:119:0:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.upload
   640:1000:119:102847031:2017-09-27 20:28:45.352315425 +0100:2017-09-28 09:02:32.195212507 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crash
   640:1000:119:34020328:2017-09-25 18:16:57.656132936 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.crash
   600:111:119:0:2017-09-25 18:16:59.348145502 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:59.348145502 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.uploaded
  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)
  RelatedPackageVersions: apport-noui N/A
  SourcePackage: whoopsie
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-22 (37 days ago)

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