Ubuntu – apport-gtk 100% CPU usage on startup on Ubuntu (14.04 LTS)

apportcpu load

I'm getting 100% CPU usage at startup consistently by apport-gtk as shown here.

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According to Apport wiki shouldn't even be running on my machine since it's not a beta version (although I upgraded from 14.04 LTS Beta 2 to the release version).

Finally, I have tried the following to no avail:

  1. Disable apport as described here

    $ cat /etc/default/apport                                                                                       
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0

  2. I've disabled all options in System Settings > Security & Privacy > Diagnostics tab as shown below.

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Brief system info:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

$ uname -a
  Linux architect 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 10 19:11:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've run out of ideas and am not sure what I can do to fix this issue. Any ideas?

Best Answer

Take a look and delete all files in /var/crash/:

rm /var/crash/*

I suddenly had the same problem apport-gtk taking 100% on every restart.

Seemed there was a huge (2GB+) bogus crash file in /var/crash/ that couldn't be parsed. After several minutes of waiting I always ended up with this rather mysterious dialog:

This problem report is damaged and cannot be processed. Error('Incorrect padding',)

After I deleted the file in /var/crash/ both issues were gone.

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