As it turns out, this is a bug in apport. The attached patch makes apport conform to the behavior described in core(5).
** Attachment added: "Update apport to remove pre-existing core files" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17035692/apport-gcc.patch ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None => apport ** Summary changed: - Cores don't dump when they otherwise should + Apport doesn't remove pre-existing core files -- Apport doesn't remove pre-existing core files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
