Bug 1476518 - abrt (or journald/coredumpctl) does not deal well with journal disk corruption
Summary: abrt (or journald/coredumpctl) does not deal well with journal disk corruption
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: abrt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-29 19:11 UTC by Robin Burchell
Modified: 2018-05-29 12:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 12:27:27 UTC
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log extract of abrt looping around (4.40 KB, text/plain)
2017-07-29 19:11 UTC, Robin Burchell
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Description Robin Burchell 2017-07-29 19:11:53 UTC
Created attachment 1306364 [details]
log extract of abrt looping around

I recently had some laptop trouble which I had to hard-reboot from. This caused some disk corruption. When I got back after a restart, abrt started going crazy (see attachment).

I ended up having to wipe my journal (rm -rf /var/log/journal), restart systemd-journald, and abrt-everything to get things quiet again. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy for post-mortem purposes; I didn't think of that until *after* I was trying to stop it from reporting a few hundred crashes a minute.

My guess is that something did actually crash (which subsequently caused me to have to hard-reboot); this was logged in the journal in a corrupted form, and abrt (or some other piece of the puzzle) didn't manage to cope with that situation. Note that the line:

    Jul 29 21:00:28 adele abrt-dump-journal-oops[930]: abrt-dump-journal-oops: Found oopses: 6


... was repeated, always with the same 6 oopses count, further leading me to believe that something got "stuck".

Setting severity to high, because although I doubt this sort of situation occurs often, it's very difficult to recover from when it does happen.

Comment 1 Robin Burchell 2017-07-29 19:14:10 UTC
Note that I do still a bunch (422 to be exact) of repeated crash reports in the UI. If those would be of use somehow, I can provide them.

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