** Description changed: [Impact] - If an application crashes and /tmp is full or nearly full, and the application crash file is not fully written to /tmp (due to the lack of free space), then apport will crash when processing the incomplete core dump. This is occurring more frequently in Ubuntu 13.04 and apport version 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.4 (as it add core dumps of setuid binaries). + If an application crashes and /tmp is full or nearly full, and the application crash file is not fully written to /tmp (due to the lack of free space), then apport will crash when processing the incomplete core dump. This is occurring more frequently in Ubuntu 13.04 and apport version 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 (as it add core dumps of setuid binaries). [Test Case] Confirm that apport version 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.4 does not appear at the problem page for this bug. https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/58c0161985991c62487ced8e88f9fc318050694c [Regression Potential] Little as it just adds exception handling for EOFErrors. I have problems with Synpatic, which crashes often. Then apport wants to file the bug and crashes also (apport-gtk). This leads to a lot of apport files on /tmp --> finally my complete / partition is full! with over 4 GB of apport-gtk files! Got this many times, always the same procedure: 1. start Synaptics 2. try(!) mark unneeded config files from removed packages 2b. Synaptic crashes, open up the apport file 3. Apport crashes 4. Synaptics crashes again (window was not closed before) 5. Apport crashes ... 5b. Apport writes a lot of files in /tmp ... 6. systems hangs while /tmp (which is normally mounted on / directly) partition is full! . Xubuntu 13.04 beta2 Apport: ii apport 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 all automatically generate crash reports for debugging ii apport-gtk 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 all GTK+ frontend for the apport crash report system ii apport-symptoms 0.19 all symptom scripts for apport ii python-apport 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 all Python library for Apport crash report handling ii python3-apport 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 all Python 3 library for Apport crash report handling
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