[Bug 1894369] Re: apport-autoreport.service fails to start in groovy after upgrading from focal

[Martin]

I have this issue too. It causes systemd's PID 1 (`/sbin/init splash` in
htop) to use 100% CPU, which seems unfortunate.

When it happens, the log is filled with a whole lot of lines like this:

Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Failed to start Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Failed to start Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Failed to start Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.

Followed by logs like this:

Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Failed to start Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Starting Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled...
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun whoopsie-upload-all[25552]: /var/crash/_usr_bin_stacer.0.crash already marked for upload, skipping
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun whoopsie-upload-all[25552]: All reports processed
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Succeeded.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Finished Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Starting Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled...
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun whoopsie-upload-all[25605]: /var/crash/_usr_bin_stacer.0.crash already marked for upload, skipping
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun whoopsie-upload-all[25605]: All reports processed
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Succeeded.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Finished Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
Sep 11 10:00:02 ubun systemd[1]: Starting Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled...
Sep 11 10:00:03 ubun whoopsie-upload-all[25622]: /var/crash/_usr_bin_stacer.0.crash already marked for upload, skipping
Sep 11 10:00:03 ubun whoopsie-upload-all[25622]: All reports processed
Sep 11 10:00:03 ubun systemd[1]: apport-autoreport.service: Succeeded.
Sep 11 10:00:03 ubun systemd[1]: Finished Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled.
Sep 11 10:00:03 ubun systemd[1]: Starting Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled...

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Title:
  apport-autoreport.service fails to start in groovy after upgrading
  from focal

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  apport-autoreport.service fails to start with that CPU load increases
  significantly making computer unusable. disabling the service and path
  and stopping both normalizes CPU load as it was supposed to be. for
  test purposes i started apport-autoreport.service and after checking
  its status i get state: degraded and 2 units failed.

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