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[Adam Conrad <adconrad@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Jean-Baptiste, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apport into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/2.17.2-0ubuntu1.2 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu Vivid)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1473562

Title:
  Too many crash files kill the device

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apport source package in Vivid:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Tested on krillin.

  TEST CASE:
  1. adb shell to the phone and create a crash file
  $ sh -c 'kill -SEGV $$'
  2. Now create dozens
  $ for n in $(seq 50); do ln /var/crash/_bin_dash.32011.crash /var/crash/_bin_dash_${n}.32011.crash; done
  3. Remove any "upload" and "uploaded" files that have been created and reboot
  $ sudo rm /var/crash/*upload* && sudo reboot

  ACTUAL RESULT
  Lot of whoopsie-upload-all and apport processes are created on boot, consume all the resources of the system and make the phone unbootable or partially functional. OOM killer kills random system tasks such as upstart. Depending on the processes killed, the phone hangs on boot, reboots, dash doesn't come up...

  The number of crashes in this test is a bit excessive but we can
  imagine a scenario where a dozen of crash files are not uploaded
  because the phone is on cellular data, and uploads everything when it
  connects to wifi, disabling the user session.

  A way to recover is to go into recovery and clean /var/crash.

  EXPECTED RESULT
  crash uploads are serialized and can be uploaded only one at a time
  If system resources are already low, the crash file is not uploaded.

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