Yes, this remains an issues in ubuntu 20, nearly a fresh install. I'll try to report what happens, but it's running for over an hour so far. It's progress bar does slowly move however.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apport in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493050 Title: ubuntu-bug "Collecting problem information..." for over 30 min Status in apport package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: apport ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-video-nouveau = "Collecting problem information ... This might take a few minutes. ............." it just filled the 80x50 screen with 4000 dots, at about 1/2 sec per is 30 minutes. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND carl 2529 0.2 1.8 89260 36592 pts/2 Sl+ 22:11 0:08 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/apport-cli xserver-xorg-video-nouveau seems to be the same thing as #397140 so I am doing the strace ting: carl@gw42:~$ pgrep apport 2529 carl@gw42:~$ ps ux|grep apport-cli | grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}' 2529 2716 carl@gw42:~$ strace -vvs1024 -o /tmp/apport-gtk.trace -p 2529 Process 2529 attached - interrupt to quit which is lots of: select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 12114}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1260076594, 5680}, NULL) = 0 select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 36012}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1260076594, 41961}, NULL) = 0 but I was able to run it for this report. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Dec 5 23:00:07 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: apport 1.9.3-0ubuntu4.1 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic SourcePackage: apport Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/493050/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp