Description of problem: It's not helpful to ask users to report crashes in their own software, e.g. unit tests and other code that crashes as part of normal C and C++ development activities. Fedora is supposed to be an attractive platform for developers, but ships with annoying defaults. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abrt-2.10.10-1.fc28.x86_64 abrt-addon-ccpp-2.10.10-1.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gcc -x c - -o /tmp/a.out <<< 'int main() { __builtin_abort(); }' 2. /tmp/a.out Actual results: abrt tries to get me to report this crash. Expected results: abrt doesn't interfere with typical development tasks, since the crashes can't be reported anywhere. Additional info: This was apparently changed by https://github.com/abrt/abrt/issues/891 I think that was a mistake. "This would allow users to gather debugging information for system problems with third-party drivers or applications" -- we should be encouraging third-party code to be packaged as RPMs that can be installed by Fedora users, not annoying Fedora users who are writing their own code.
FWIW I agree with this - such concerns have already be reported at https://github.com/abrt/abrt/issues/891#issuecomment-73018501 but they were dismissed with a very vague argument.
If we really think it's important to be able to capture crashes in non-RPM binaries there should be a simple way to flip the setting back and forth, for the minority of users who are experiencing such problems and want to report them. The default should be off though.
I agree we should change the default.
Pulls request fixing this merged: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/pull/1384
FEDORA-2019-d61c2d0dd0 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-d61c2d0dd0
abrt-2.12.1-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-d61c2d0dd0
abrt-2.12.1-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.