Python crashes are not limited to < 3 per day

example:

run gconf-editor, send it a sig11

$ grep CrashCount /var/crash/_usr_bin_gconf-editor.1000.crash
$

run gconf-editor, send it a sig11

$ grep CrashCount /var/crash/_usr_bin_gconf-editor.1000.crash
CrashCounter: 1

run gconf-editor, send it a sig11

$ grep CrashCount /var/crash/_usr_bin_gconf-editor.1000.crash
CrashCounter: 1

the testsuite errors

======================================================================
ERROR: run_crash().
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 1893, in test_run_crash
    r.write(open(report_file, 'w'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 307, in write
    f = open(v[0]) # file name
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpmMWul9/core'

======================================================================
ERROR: run_crash() anonymization.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 2265, in test_run_crash_anonymity
    r.write(open(report_file, 'w'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 307, in write
    f = open(v[0]) # file name
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmp_pmnVI/core'

======================================================================
ERROR: run_crash() on reports with subsequently uninstalled packages
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 2138, in test_run_crash_uninstalled
    r.write(open(report_file, 'w'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 307, in write
    f = open(v[0]) # file name
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpXSV8vz/core'

======================================================================
FAIL: run_report_bug() for a pid of an unpackaged program.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 1805, in test_run_report_bug_unpackaged_pid
    self.assertRaises(SystemExit, self.ui.run_argv)
AssertionError: SystemExit not raised

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 44 tests in 24.381s

FAILED (failures=1, errors=3)

log has:

apport (pid 11127) Fri Jul 9 11:18:29 2010: executable: /usr/bin/gconf-editor (command line "gconf-editor")
apport (pid 11127) Fri Jul 9 11:18:29 2010: this executable already crashed 2 times, ignoring

but apport still displays the "do you want to report a bug"

I can replicate at least the first three test suite failures on a clean maverick install.

CrashCounter isn't supposed to go beyond 1, further crashes are entirely ignored. The bug is that the GUI pops up for them.

I can't reproduce the actual problem, though. I crashed gconf-editor three times, the first two times it created/updated a .crash report and logged it, and the third time apport.log said "already crashed 2 times" and the report is not touched at all.

Can you please clean up /var/crash and /var/log/apport.log, run the test again, and get me the output of "stat /var/crash/_usr_bin_gconf-editor.1000.crash" after each crash? Afterwards, please attach /var/log/apport.log.

I tested with update-notifier --debug now, and it's only popping up the first two times. The third time there is no output, no launch of the crash dialog, and no change at all in the stat values of the .crash.

bah, I can't get the issue now after cleaning the crash dir and the apport log, closing the bug

For the record, test suite failures were due to maverick's ptrace protection. Fixed in trunk.

the issue is with python exceptions, not segfaults crashes

Fixed in trunk.

This bug was fixed in the package apport - 1.25-0ubuntu1

---------------
apport (1.25-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Add new response "Examine locally" to presenting the report details,
      which runs apport-retrace in the chosen mode in a terminal. This should
      be made available for crash reports if apport-retrace and a Terminal
      application are installed; add an abstrace UI method for this.
      (LP: #75901)
    - apport-gtk: Add "Examine locally..." button, and implement
      ui_run_terminal().
    - apport-cli: Add "Examine locally..." responses, and implement
      ui_run_terminal().
    - apport-cli: Greatly speed up displaying large reports. This also changes
      the format to avoid indenting each line with a space, and visually set
      apart the keys in a better way.
    - apport_python_hook.py: Move tests out of this file into test/python, to
      avoid having to parse the unit tests at each Python startup.
    - test/python: Also make tests work if Python hook is not installed in
      system's sitecustomize.py.
    - packaging.py: Add get_modified_conffiles() API, and implement it in
      packaging-apt-dpkg.py.
    - hookutils.py: Add attach_conffiles().
    - hookutils.py: Add attach_upstart_overrides().
    - launchpad.py: Remove "Ubuntu" in bug response, replace with "this
      software". (LP: #883234)
    - apport-kde: Rearrange order of imports to get intended error message if
      PyKDE is not installed.
    - packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Ignore hardening-wrapper diversions, to make
      gcc_ice_hook work if hardening-wrapper is installed.
    - apport_python_hook: Respect $APPORT_REPORT_DIR.
    - apport_python_hook: Limit successive crashes per program and user to 3
      per day, just like signal crashes. (LP: #603503)
    - packaging-apt-dpkg.py: Skip online tests when there is no default route.
    - ui.py: Fix test suite to not fail if system has some obsolete or
      non-distro packages.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:45:08 -0400