Bug 811733

Summary:	abrt: Do not move kernel vmcore out of /var/crash/
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal>
Component:	abrt	Assignee:	abrt <abrt-devel-list>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	17	CC:	abrt-devel-list, anderson, chaowang, dvlasenk, iprikryl, jmoskovc, kklic, mmilata, mtoman, npajkovs, ruyang
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Last Closed:	2012-08-30 00:59:05 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	756771, 844679, 847227

Description Vivek Goyal 2012-04-11 20:24:06 UTC

Description of problem:

Currently abrt-vmcore service is enabled by default and it moves vmcore out of /var/crash into /var/spool/abrt. This is wrong for multiple reasons and needs fixing.


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Comment 1 Jiri Moskovcak 2012-08-09 22:13:03 UTC

We could use hardlinks instead of copying it (which would also be a faster solution, but won't work cross different fs). Can you please give me some examples of what it breaks? (just for a sake of having a specific use case)

Comment 2 WANG Chao 2012-08-10 02:31:01 UTC

Lots of customers would like to search /var/crash for their vmcores, and obviously abrt-vmcore breaks the law that kdump setup, which makes confusion.
They also filed bugs on this issue, bug 844679.

And perhaps, use a softlink instead?

Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2012-08-13 10:52:24 UTC

Fixed in git:

commit 6e47395215c2c2a39d031281fa81649ee4d45491
Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux>
Date:   Mon Aug 13 12:47:15 2012 +0200

    abrt-harvest-vmcore: add CopyVMcore config option to copy vmcores

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-08-22 19:29:27 UTC

abrt-2.0.12-1.fc17, libreport-2.0.13-1.fc17, btparser-0.18-2.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-11529/abrt-2.0.12-1.fc17,libreport-2.0.13-1.fc17,btparser-0.18-2.fc17

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-08-23 23:30:15 UTC

Package abrt-2.0.12-1.fc17, libreport-2.0.13-1.fc17, btparser-0.18-2.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.0.12-1.fc17 libreport-2.0.13-1.fc17 btparser-0.18-2.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-11529/abrt-2.0.12-1.fc17,libreport-2.0.13-1.fc17,btparser-0.18-2.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-08-30 00:59:05 UTC

abrt-2.0.12-1.fc17, libreport-2.0.13-2.fc17, btparser-0.18-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.