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apport writes log every second and makes system hang for a moment

Asked by schnapf

Hi, I'm running Edgy Eft as desktop and server system (apache2, mysql, ftp running, x-server running).

Every second the system does "something" for a very short moment (you can hear the hard disk working/writing). During this access of the disk the system hangs. These actions take place two or three times per second (!).

I looked at /var/log. The apport.log file seems to be very big. I looked into it. Every line is just the same, here a quote:

apport (pid 11033) Thu Feb 22 13:53:11 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11031', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11036) Thu Feb 22 13:53:11 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11034', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11039) Thu Feb 22 13:53:12 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11037', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11042) Thu Feb 22 13:53:12 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11040', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11045) Thu Feb 22 13:53:12 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11043', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11048) Thu Feb 22 13:53:13 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11046', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11051) Thu Feb 22 13:53:13 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11049', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11054) Thu Feb 22 13:53:13 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11052', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11057) Thu Feb 22 13:53:14 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11055', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11060) Thu Feb 22 13:53:14 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11058', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11063) Thu Feb 22 13:53:14 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11061', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring
apport (pid 11066) Thu Feb 22 13:53:14 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11064', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring

I don't think the servers are responsible for that, because I turned off each of them and that didn't work it out.

How can I stop this? I can't work like that.

Thanks for your help,
regards
Bernd

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Best Wolf Canis (wolf-canis) said : 		#1

Hello Bernd,
first you should figure out which program crashed. It must be a program which is a non binary package (see python file /usr/share/apport/apport line 167). Find the program to the pid:

apport (pid 11066) Thu Feb 22 13:53:14 2007: called with: ['/usr/share/apport/apport', '11064', '11'], but no core dump available, ignoring

In this example 11064 is the pid, for that you must find the program.

If you can't do this so easily, you can disable apport by running the command: sudo /etc/init.d/apport stop
If you want disable it at boot, then you must edit the file /etc/default/apport. Set the variable enabled=0.

That's what I would do.

Hope this helps,
                          Mr Canis

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schnapf (bernd-egdus) said : 		#2

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schnapf (bernd-egdus) said : 		#3

Hello Mr Canis,

thanks for your help. I turned off apport. I didn't find out which application should be the crashing one.
Without apport it works perfectly.

Thanks,
Bernd