Bug 847227

Summary: abrt: Do not move kernel vmcore out of /var/crash/
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc>
Component: abrtAssignee: abrt <abrt-devel-list>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Kyral <mkyral>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.4CC: abrt-devel-list, anderson, chaowang, dfediuck, dkutalek, dvlasenk, gbai, iprikryl, jmoskovc, kklic, mkyral, mmilata, mnowak, mtoman, nobody+abrt-devel-list, npajkovs, ovasik, ruyang, vgoyal
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: abrt-2.0.8-8.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 811733 Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-21 07:54:09 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 811733    
Bug Blocks: 756771    

Description Jiri Moskovcak 2012-08-10 07:55:00 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #811733 +++

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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--- Additional comment from jmoskovc on 2012-08-09 18:13:03 EDT ---

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)

--- Additional comment from chaowang on 2012-08-09 22:31:01 EDT ---

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 1 Denys Vlasenko 2012-08-13 10:54:30 UTC 
Fixed in git:

commit f228de8d5967d819fd94a0161de1382b0af147a3
Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux>
Date:   Mon Aug 13 12:49:50 2012 +0200

    abrt-harvest-vmcore: add CopyVMcore config option to copy vmcores
Comment 6 Jiri Moskovcak 2013-01-24 15:23:25 UTC 
Cause
   ABRT was moving kernel cores from it's default location /var/crash to /var/spool/abrt

Consequence
  Various tools relying on the default location (/var/crash) were broken.
Fix
   Don't move the core, just copy them
Result
   The kernel cores are not moved from /var/crash
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 07:54:09 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0290.html