Bug 541707

Summary: crashes of non-packaged programs are lost
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Nečas <yeti>
Component: abrtAssignee: Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: anton, chris, dfediuck, dvlasenk, iprikryl, jmoskovc, kklic, mnowak, npajkovs
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Fixed In Version: 1.0.6-1.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Fix. Use MakeCompatCore = yes in /etc/abrt/plugins/CCpp.conf to enable none

Description David Nečas 2009-11-26 19:31:42 UTC
Description of problem:
If a program that does not came from a package crashes, no coredump is produced with abrt enabled.   And there is no information about the crash in the abrt log either.  So, all information about the crash is lost.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt-0.0.11-2.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ulimit -c unlimited  # not that it has any effect
2. gcc -xc -o unknown - <<<'main(){*(int*)0=1;}'
3. ./unknown
  
Actual results:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

But despite of the message there is no core dumped.   And there is no information about the crash in the abrt GUI.

Expected results:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

And a core dump is produced.  Since abrt cannot do anything with the crash of an unknown program it should let the program dump core instead of eating it.

Comment 1 Michal Nowak 2009-11-27 12:12:28 UTC
*** Bug 541880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Denys Vlasenko 2009-11-27 15:08:18 UTC
Created attachment 374237 [details]
Fix. Use MakeCompatCore = yes in /etc/abrt/plugins/CCpp.conf to enable

Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2009-11-27 15:08:58 UTC
In git, will be in post 1.0.0 update

Comment 4 Chris January 2009-12-01 09:46:15 UTC
Will there be an option in the GUI to to control that option?

Comment 5 Jiri Moskovcak 2010-02-02 13:50:09 UTC
Fixed in git.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-02-03 15:17:31 UTC
abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-02-05 01:31:55 UTC
abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update abrt'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1470

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-02-09 21:01:59 UTC
abrt-1.0.6-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.