[Bug 1058160] Re: May be several minutes between crash and error message

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  May be several minutes between crash and error message

Status in Apport:
  Triaged
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  apport 2.5.2-0ubuntu4, Ubuntu Q

  1. Cause something to crash in such a way that the crash report is
  extremely large. Simulate this by putting
  <https://launchpadlibrarian.net/117663246/_usr_bin_gwibber-
  service.1000.crash> into /var/crash/.

  What happens: An error alert appears after several minutes.

  What should happen: An error alert appears after no more than a few
  seconds.

  Currently Apport processes a crash report completely before the error
  alert appears. It could instead put up the error alert immediately
  before the report has finished processing, based solely on the process
  ID. The Details pane of an error alert already includes a spinner if
  the report hasn't finished processing yet.

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