[Bug 1497700] Re: apport should become controllable

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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

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Title:
  apport should become controllable

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  As a developer I'm not very satisfied with the current behavior of
  apport. After an abort trap in an application in development (a Scheme
  kernel with reference counting) apport silently brings the machine
  down trying to "analyze" my software in development (you can be glad
  it's open source anyway) to tell me after some time there wouldn't be
  enough memory to analyze the problem and "send a report to the
  developers". Well, that is me right now but when you implement a new
  memory management scheme you do stress tests. That software in
  development sets it's own stack and virtual address space limits and
  just aborts when there is no more memory available. Some parts are
  making heavy use of the call stack and even gdb takes a lot of time to
  "analyze" all those frames - but only on explicit request. But apport
  tries the same without any limits on the process it seems and that way
  it pushes "all the desktop" into the swap area.

  As a developer I would like apport to become controllable instead of
  automatically creating problems after what seemed to be a simple crash
  of some yet unknown application.

  According to your guidelines my system is unsupported because of
  missing updates (you call that a "freeze") so please don't send me any
  questions.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: apport 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports:
   640:1000:118:2480314:2015-09-16 18:05:21.567548751 +0200:2015-09-16 18:05:22.567548751 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_lib_unity-settings-daemon_unity-settings-daemon.1000.crash
   640:1000:118:5224:2015-09-20 10:48:44.437165498 +0200:2015-09-20 10:48:45.437165498 +0200:/var/crash/_opt_VSI-alfa_VSI-C_src_vsi.1000.crash
   640:0:118:648133:2015-09-12 12:02:40.413288573 +0200:2015-09-12 12:02:38.249610600 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_sbin_ModemManager.0.crash
   640:1000:118:3136986:2015-09-12 13:43:36.948736429 +0200:2015-09-12 13:43:37.948736429 +0200:/var/crash/_usr_bin_konsole.1000.crash
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Sep 20 10:53:41 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-08 (103 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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