In Ubuntu, whoopsie is a daemon that is responsible for collecting error reports from apport and then sending that report to Canonical if the user agrees to this in the apport confirmation dialog.
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What is the 'whoopsie' process and how can I remove it?
On one of my machines I have a process running called "whoopsie". I'm running 12.04 server and never specifically installed anything with this name.
Google seems to imply that it has something to with error logs but I'm not finding too much…
Nanne
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How can I track a bug that caused a crash and was reported via apport / whoopsie?
It used to be that when a program crashed, especially when a user was using a pre-release of Ubuntu, apport could be used to open a bug report. The user could then track the bug, see if it affected others, help fix it, etc.
As of Precise 12.04,…
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How can I copy the text of an unreportable error?
Occasionally I receive an error report from Ubuntu with the option to send in the details of the error. However, if the error was generated from a non-official package (local installation or PPA) I cannot just click submit to send in the error.
How…
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Whoopsie and NetworkManager seem to be crashing causing network connectivity issues
I've recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Lenovo W540 Thinkpad, and I am having issues with my wireless network allowing network traffic. The /var/log/syslog and journalctl -xe output during the problem is as follows.
Oct 15 18:41:34…
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How to make whoopsie more silent (log clutter with "online"messages)
I know what whoopsie is from the answers to What is the 'whoopsie' process and how can I remove it?
I do not want to stop error reporting, as I think that error reporting is the minimum a user should do to try to help Ubuntu. But since the upgrade…
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Where do the system error reports go?
Every once in a while an error pops up, so there's this dialogue box which asks if one would like to inform Ubuntu about it. Upon confirming, where does this report go? Can it be followed up? If it is followed up, is there a fix that is provided…
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How to make apport always open a bug report page?
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How can I track a bug that caused a crash and was reported via apport / whoopsie?
Since I updated to 12.04 apport sends crash reports to the server silently without opening a bug report page on launchpad while I'd like to…
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Where do I look to see if my sent crash reports is being tracked?
Recently I've been having an issue with NetworkManager crashing on boot or on resume from suspend. I enabled apport specifically, so I can report and track this issue.
When the problem occurs I get the "A system problem has been detected" dialog and…
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After submitting a .crash file using apport, I get no feedback URL to Launchpad, whoopsie reports the crash is already reported
I have done this many times before and it has always worked so I don't know what the problem is now, I even had a look at this but still can't get it working. virt-manager had a crash, it created a .crash file in /var/crash, but it wasn't convenient…
user364819
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Why does whoopsie increasingly take more CPU?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I've been following whoopsie with the top program and noticed something strange.
In the afternoon the daemon process was only using up to 2% of CPU power.
But during the evening this slowly increased to sometimes…
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Whoopsie error: can’t uninstall
I can't uninstall whoopsie or reinstall it, I can't purge it, and I can't find the lock files. This is the screen I get when I try to uninstall it or reinstall or upgrade.
The following packages will be upgraded:
whoopsie
1 upgraded, 0 newly…
Ns29
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Apport Vs Whoopsie!
From my readings I found that both do the same job by collecting crash reports to send it to Canonical.
So why there is two daemon processes doing the same Job?
If there differences between them, so what are these differences?
user259474
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How are bugs classified as "by 12.04 standards"?
I have been checking the Ubuntu errors page, but in the legend I noticed that both 12.10 and 13.04 are listed twice. Once just Ubuntu 12.10, and another Ubuntu 12.10 (by 12.04 standards).
So what classifies an error to be in 12.04 standards and what…
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systemlog message: "Cannot reach: https://daisy.ubuntu.com" - what does it mean and what should I do about it?
When running "tail -f /var/log/syslog" in the terminal I keep getting the message: "Cannot reach: https://daisy.ubuntu.com"
Oct 2 15:06:22 duncan-IdeaCentre-K430 systemd[1746]: Starting Tracker metadata extractor...
Oct 2 15:06:22…
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What is a reasonable time frame for whoopsie-upload-all and systemd-journald to process? Ubuntu 21.04
I recently upgraded to 21.04 and after rebooting and installing upgrades, I've been finding one of my four cpu cores is generally at 100% constantly, with the whoopsie-upload-all command. It's been that way for about an hour so far.
I don't have a…
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