Description of problem: See this bug report and discussion: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/crash-catcher@lists.fedorahosted.org/thread/VKEBQNKWSLMAWNP5KVUCZPVFTB4ZAAJ4/ Lately, I'm seeing a weird behavior of abrt happening over and over again: Although I have just a few (say, 4) smaller crashes (not WebKit or Firefox), which take up little space on my disk, when a new crash happens, some or even all crashes are deleted. abrtd then reports to syslog: abrtd[896]: Size of '/var/spool/abrt' >= 25000 MB (MaxCrashReportsSize), deleting old directory 'ccpp-2016-12-… This way, I never get more than 6 crashes listed by gnome-abrt or abrt-cli. Sometimes, abrt even deletes all my crash directories, including small python backtraces with just a few megabytes. I don't understand why this happens. Can you please tell me? Is this a bug? After the last crash happened (firefox, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404439), all crashes were deleted. This is the filesystem state of abrt directories after that crash: /var/cache/abrt-di is 800 MB although there is no crash present any more. /var/spool/abrt-upload is empty. /var/spool/abrt and /var/lib/abrt and /var/run/abrt just contain some very small files. This is all abrt-related stuff in my syslog from last boot, where abrt deleted all my crashes (19:25:58): https://gist.github.com/anonymous/348e3101aa18c5f0d862f8396a3f97f0 I already tried to purge/delete all the files listed above and reinstall all of abrt, but there is no change, the issue doesn't go away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abrt-2.9.0-1.fc25.x86_64 libreport-2.8.0-1.fc25.x86_64 How reproducible: randomly Steps to Reproduce: 1. have any crasher 2. have a look at gnome-abrt Actual results: some crashes in gnome-abrt get deleted although my disk is not full and the crash reports size limit is not reached. Expected results: Don't delete crash reports for no reason. Additional info: I have 116 GiB of free disk space, that's more than 4*MaxCrashReportsSize. MaxCrashReportsSize is 25000 MiB. All crashes never take up more than 2 GiB on my disk before ABRT starts deleting them. When ABRT starts deleting bugs, it often deletes all of them or all but one even though the last remaining crash just takes ~16 MiB on my disk.
Still present. I sometimes don't even get to report a bug because abrt claims a limit is reached.
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Still seeing this on Fedora 29 very often.
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Still present.
MaxCrashReportsSize is related to size of `/var/spool/abrt/` Does this still happens to you. I am asking because last year we fixed a lot of issues regarding MaxCrashReportsSize and purging that directory when it is full.
Closing. Please reopen if it happens to you.