Public bug reported: Today for the first time, and coincidentally looking for a different setting, I went to the Settings->Privacy dialogue. I was also (coincidentally for a different reason, relating to #1720149) already tailing /var/log/syslog to a terminal.
Immediately on opening that dialogue, the syslog tail flooded with whoopsie continually relaunching, causing enough work to raise the fan speeds. This is a representative section from towards the end of me letting it, before I killed the service, with some necessary viciousness. Specifically systemctl stop whoopsie (didn't stop it) systemctl disable whoopsie (didn't stop it) (find pid for whoopsie's root process and kill it) (that stopped it) Also for good measure ensured the automatic bug reporting option in the privacy settings dialog was set to manual, which I think was done anyway when I disabled whoopsie, though the dialog wasn't on top at the time for me to be sure. It had been set to automatic when I first opened the dialog. Snippet from syslog attached. It was just repeating this continually for several minutes before I stopped it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: whoopsie 0.2.58 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CrashReports: 664:1000:119:0:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.upload 640:1000:119:102847031:2017-09-27 20:28:45.352315425 +0100:2017-09-28 09:02:32.195212507 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crash 640:1000:119:34020328:2017-09-25 18:16:57.656132936 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.crash 600:111:119:0:2017-09-25 18:16:59.348145502 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:59.348145502 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.uploaded CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Sep 29 10:00:34 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-30 (60 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) RelatedPackageVersions: apport-noui N/A SourcePackage: whoopsie UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-22 (37 days ago) ** Affects: whoopsie (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful autoreport-false ** Attachment added: "syslog-snippet" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720331/+attachment/4958534/+files/syslog-snippet -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to whoopsie in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720331 Title: Whoopsie continually relaunching Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Today for the first time, and coincidentally looking for a different setting, I went to the Settings->Privacy dialogue. I was also (coincidentally for a different reason, relating to #1720149) already tailing /var/log/syslog to a terminal. Immediately on opening that dialogue, the syslog tail flooded with whoopsie continually relaunching, causing enough work to raise the fan speeds. This is a representative section from towards the end of me letting it, before I killed the service, with some necessary viciousness. Specifically systemctl stop whoopsie (didn't stop it) systemctl disable whoopsie (didn't stop it) (find pid for whoopsie's root process and kill it) (that stopped it) Also for good measure ensured the automatic bug reporting option in the privacy settings dialog was set to manual, which I think was done anyway when I disabled whoopsie, though the dialog wasn't on top at the time for me to be sure. It had been set to automatic when I first opened the dialog. Snippet from syslog attached. It was just repeating this continually for several minutes before I stopped it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: whoopsie 0.2.58 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-12.13-generic 4.13.3 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CrashReports: 664:1000:119:0:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.upload 640:1000:119:102847031:2017-09-27 20:28:45.352315425 +0100:2017-09-28 09:02:32.195212507 +0100:/var/crash/_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crash 640:1000:119:34020328:2017-09-25 18:16:57.656132936 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:58.760134901 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.crash 600:111:119:0:2017-09-25 18:16:59.348145502 +0100:2017-09-25 18:16:59.348145502 +0100:/var/crash/_opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.uploaded CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Sep 29 10:00:34 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-30 (60 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) RelatedPackageVersions: apport-noui N/A SourcePackage: whoopsie UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-22 (37 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/+bug/1720331/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp