[Bug 1225870] Re: Trying to report xorg bug, apport balloons to >1GB of memory and uses 20GB of disk before crashing

[Brian Murray]

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Title:
  Trying to report xorg bug, apport balloons to >1GB of memory and uses
  20GB of disk before crashing

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I get an xorg crash (due to fglrx) regularly, but any time I try to
  report it, apport takes a long while ballooning up to over 1GB of RSS
  and uses disk space until it runs out of it (c. 20GB of my 50GB root
  fs).

  The crashing bug is apparently being fixed in bug 1168849, so this is
  only for the memory and disk use.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: apport 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportLog:
   ERROR: apport (pid 9870) Mon Sep 16 08:36:25 2013: called for pid 9766, signal 11, core limit 0
   ERROR: apport (pid 9870) Mon Sep 16 08:36:25 2013: executable: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser (command line "chromium-browser\ --type=plugin\ --plugin-path=/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so\ --lang=en-US\ --channel=2512.1309.20542013")
   ERROR: apport (pid 9870) Mon Sep 16 08:36:25 2013: debug: session gdbus call: (true,)
   
   ERROR: apport (pid 9870) Mon Sep 16 08:37:10 2013: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_lib_chromium-browser_chromium-browser.1000.crash
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Sep 16 09:16:29 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-10 (309 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-02 (136 days ago)

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