I'm still seeing this problem trying to report a crash of gnome-shell on Ubuntu 17.10 (wayland). I even tried adding an 8GB swapfile, but it didn't help. 228K /var/crash/_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crash I'm showing 5.8G of physical RAM free, plus 15G swap.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/718635 Title: Error message "Your computer does not have enough free memory" when core dump or stacktrace failed to be created is misleading Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: apport On Unity fully updated, when I login there is a X crash (attached), an apport dialog is displayed but complains about: --- Sorry, the program "Xorg" closed unexpectedly Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyze the problem and send a report to the developers. --- You can only close and the report is canceled. Of course there's enough memory This message is displayed when the core dump or stacktrace can't be attached to the report. This should be changed to something closer to the real issue. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: apport 1.17.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic i686 ApportLog: ERROR: apport (pid 8213) Mon Feb 14 10:17:49 2011: called for pid 741, signal 6 ERROR: apport (pid 8213) Mon Feb 14 10:17:49 2011: executable: /usr/bin/Xorg (command line "/usr/bin/X :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-ics1IG/database -nolisten tcp vt7") Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Feb 14 10:54:38 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110209) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: apport To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/718635/+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