I get a similar issue for apport-retrace with extremely large CoreDump files:
$ apport-retrace -R -v -g --sandbox=sandbox _usr_bin_qemu-system-x86_64.0.crash Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apport-retrace", line 321, in <module> report.add_package_info() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 214, in add_package_info package = apport.fileutils.find_file_package(self['ExecutablePath']) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 88, in find_file_package return packaging.get_file_package(file) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 307, in get_file_package stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1143, in _execute_child self.pid = os.fork() OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307413 Title: apport-unpack requires too much main memory to run To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1307413/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs