[Bug 1892225] Re: apport-gtk consumes 100% CPU for way too long after something crashes

[Benjamin Drung]

** Tags added: jammy

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Title:
  apport-gtk consumes 100% CPU for way too long after something crashes

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Something (related to Cinnamon) crashes, so the usual popup appears
  telling me that something crashed, and asking me whether I wanted to
  send a report. I choose Send.

  Every time this happens, then a process called apport-gtk starts
  consuming 100% CPU and it goes on for several minutes, so long that I
  end up killing it.

  There's no way there is a good reason for consuming so much CPU for so
  long. If you need to do such an amount of processing just to generate
  and send a bug report, something is deeply broken. But if the
  operation actually had to be that computationally expensive, then you
  must do it in a less intensive way so that it can go on in the
  background, for no matter how long, without rendering me unable to use
  my  computer.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: apport 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportLog:
   ERROR: apport (pid 2908) Wed Aug 19 18:39:29 2020: called for pid 2405, signal 11, core limit 0, dump mode 1
   ERROR: apport (pid 2908) Wed Aug 19 18:39:29 2020: executable: /usr/bin/cinnamon (command line "cinnamon --replace")
   ERROR: apport (pid 2908) Wed Aug 19 18:39:29 2020: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)
   
   ERROR: apport (pid 2908) Wed Aug 19 18:39:34 2020: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_cinnamon.1000.crash
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashReports:
   640:1000:110:69556:2020-08-19 18:39:33.732794284 +0200:2020-08-19 18:39:34.732794284 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_bin_cinnamon-launcher.1000.crash
   640:1000:110:15432562:2020-08-19 18:39:34.466977487 +0200:2020-08-19 18:42:42.722667813 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_bin_cinnamon.1000.crash
  CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
  Date: Wed Aug 19 18:42:34 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (2503 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-07-12 (37 days ago)

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