It could be the 'noatime' attribute. I've relatime and it works fine.
I've reproduced the problem and update notifier only shows the popup
after it being written.
(Before)
$ ls -latr /var/crash/
total 31460
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2009-07-01 20:14 ..
-rw------- 1 kmos kmos 406999 2009-09-08 22:48
_usr_bin_update-notifier.1000.crash
-rw------- 1 kmos kmos 610551 2009-09-11 23:35 _bin_bash.1000.crash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2009-09-13 09:50 .lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2009-09-13 09:50 .
---------- 1 kmos kmos 31176366 2009-09-13 09:51
_usr_lib_firefox-3.5.3_firefox.1000.crash
(After)
$ ls -latr /var/crash/
total 32804
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2009-07-01 20:14 ..
-rw------- 1 kmos kmos 406999 2009-09-08 22:48
_usr_bin_update-notifier.1000.crash
-rw------- 1 kmos kmos 610551 2009-09-11 23:35 _bin_bash.1000.crash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2009-09-13 09:50 .lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2009-09-13 09:50 .
-rw------- 1 kmos kmos 32550943 2009-09-13 09:51
_usr_lib_firefox-3.5.3_firefox.1000.crash
** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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notifier detects crashes before core is finished being written
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224071
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