[Bug 1229856] [NEW] kernel oops results in apport-gtk launching for every .crash file

[Brian Murray]

Public bug reported:

I've been testing multiple different kernels for bug 1218004, as a part
of this process my system frequently experiences a kernel oops.  Only
occasionally, is a kernel oops crash file created for these crashes.
This particular time the following happened:

Sep 24 09:47:42 localhost kernel: [  330.255893] ubuntuone-syncd[2596]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f1e907d3300 sp 00007fff91549050 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7f1e90752000+1bd000]
Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887110] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070
Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887197] IP: [<ffffffff811fbfd7>] show_vfsmnt+0x37/0x150
Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887242] PGD 72b78067 PUD 6d306067 PMD 0 
Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887276] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 

It looks like ubuntuone-syncd crashed and shortly after that I
experienced a kernel oops.  Looking in /var/crash we can see the
following:

 $ ls -lctr /var/crash/
total 39532
-rw-r----- 1 root     whoopsie     7141 Sep 18 10:10 linux-image-3.9.0-030900-generic.229283.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 bdmurray whoopsie        0 Sep 18 12:00 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.upload
-rw-r--r-- 1 bdmurray whoopsie        0 Sep 18 12:02 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.upload
-rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 Sep 18 13:47 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.uploaded
-rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 Sep 18 13:47 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.uploaded
-rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 33668113 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_lib_ubuntuone-client_ubuntuone-syncdaemon.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie   105043 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_lib_firefox_firefox.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie  1770585 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.crash
---------- 1 bdmurray whoopsie    50209 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_gnome-session.1000.crash
---------- 1 bdmurray whoopsie   952256 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_easystroke.1000.crash
-rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie  3851246 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.crash

Something caused every crash file's modification time to change.  The
end result of this being that on the next reboot I received an apport-
gtk notification for every crash, even ones that I experienced some time
ago and that have already been uploaded.  While this is an unlikely, it
is rather annoying.

** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  kernel oops results in apport-gtk launching for every .crash file

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I've been testing multiple different kernels for bug 1218004, as a
  part of this process my system frequently experiences a kernel oops.
  Only occasionally, is a kernel oops crash file created for these
  crashes.  This particular time the following happened:

  Sep 24 09:47:42 localhost kernel: [  330.255893] ubuntuone-syncd[2596]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f1e907d3300 sp 00007fff91549050 error 6 in libc-2.17.so[7f1e90752000+1bd000]
  Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887110] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070
  Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887197] IP: [<ffffffff811fbfd7>] show_vfsmnt+0x37/0x150
  Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887242] PGD 72b78067 PUD 6d306067 PMD 0 
  Sep 24 09:47:54 localhost kernel: [  341.887276] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 

  It looks like ubuntuone-syncd crashed and shortly after that I
  experienced a kernel oops.  Looking in /var/crash we can see the
  following:

   $ ls -lctr /var/crash/
  total 39532
  -rw-r----- 1 root     whoopsie     7141 Sep 18 10:10 linux-image-3.9.0-030900-generic.229283.crash
  -rw-r--r-- 1 bdmurray whoopsie        0 Sep 18 12:00 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.upload
  -rw-r--r-- 1 bdmurray whoopsie        0 Sep 18 12:02 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.upload
  -rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 Sep 18 13:47 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.uploaded
  -rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie        0 Sep 18 13:47 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.uploaded
  -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie 33668113 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_lib_ubuntuone-client_ubuntuone-syncdaemon.1000.crash
  -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie   105043 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_lib_firefox_firefox.1000.crash
  -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie  1770585 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_xeyes.1000.crash
  ---------- 1 bdmurray whoopsie    50209 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_gnome-session.1000.crash
  ---------- 1 bdmurray whoopsie   952256 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_easystroke.1000.crash
  -rw-r----- 1 bdmurray whoopsie  3851246 Sep 24 09:53 _usr_bin_d-feet.1000.crash

  Something caused every crash file's modification time to change.  The
  end result of this being that on the next reboot I received an apport-
  gtk notification for every crash, even ones that I experienced some
  time ago and that have already been uploaded.  While this is an
  unlikely, it is rather annoying.

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