[Bug 1659846] Re: /usr/bin/sudo:6:kill:main

[Steve Beattie]

This is a false positive in sudo. What's happening is that sudo is
taking an error from the program it executed and propagating out to the
calling shell. Thus when a called application aborts (i.e. SIGABRT), it
also triggers an abort for sudo.

To demonstrate:

  $ sudo sh -c 'echo $$'

results in the following in /var/crash:

  $ ls -l /var/crash/
  total 164
  -rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie  29122 May 30 15:32 _bin_dash.0.crash
  -rw-r----- 1 root whoopsie 133096 May 30 15:32 _usr_bin_sudo.0.crash

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Title:
  /usr/bin/sudo:6:kill:main

Status in sudo package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding sudo.  This problem was most recently seen with package version 1.8.19p1-1ubuntu1, the problem page at https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/a4dd7ca4d793ba224f7d7369ba21e84fe667efd1 contains more details, including versions of packages affected, stacktrace or traceback, and individual crash reports.
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