Abrt says it can't report a firefox crash because I need to "debuginfo-install firefox". I did that, downloading and installing 127MB of stuff. Now, there's been another Firefox crash and abrt is telling me the same thing. When I open the current item in abrt, it displays "13 debuginfo missing" or something like that and grinds for a while, then displays, in red, the need to run "debuginfo-install firefox". trying debuginfo-install again shows that everything is installed. $ sudo debuginfo-install firefox Package firefox-debuginfo-3.5.5-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package alsa-lib-debuginfo-1.0.21-3.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package atk-debuginfo-1.28.0-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package cairo-debuginfo-1.8.8-3.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package fontconfig-debuginfo-2.8.0-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-3.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gcc-debuginfo-4.4.2-7.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gcc-debuginfo-4.4.2-7.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gcc-debuginfo-4.4.2-7.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package GConf2-debuginfo-2.28.0-2.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gtk2-debuginfo-2.18.4-3.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gtk2-debuginfo-2.18.4-3.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glib2-debuginfo-2.22.3-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glib2-debuginfo-2.22.3-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glib2-debuginfo-2.22.3-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gnome-vfs2-debuginfo-2.24.2-2.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glib2-debuginfo-2.22.3-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glib2-debuginfo-2.22.3-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gtk2-debuginfo-2.18.4-3.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package nspr-debuginfo-4.8.2-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package pango-debuginfo-1.26.1-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package pango-debuginfo-1.26.1-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package pango-debuginfo-1.26.1-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package nspr-debuginfo-4.8.2-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package nspr-debuginfo-4.8.2-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package glibc-debuginfo-2.11-2.i686 already installed and latest version Package startup-notification-debuginfo-0.10-2.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gcc-debuginfo-4.4.2-7.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package gcc-debuginfo-4.4.2-7.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.1.5-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version Package xulrunner-debuginfo-1.9.1.5-1.fc12.i686 already installed and latest version No debuginfo packages available to install
What version of abrt do you have installed?
$ rpm -qa |grep abrt abrt-plugin-sqlite3-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-addon-ccpp-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-plugin-kerneloopsreporter-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-plugin-bugzilla-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-addon-python-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-desktop-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-gui-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-libs-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686 abrt-plugin-logger-1.0.0-1.fc12.i686
We were working on improving debuginfo install in recent versions. Latest one even has a log window, which helps with diagnosing this kind of problems. Unfortunately, 1.0.1 had a simple but nasty bug and debuginfo installs didn't work at all :( but 1.0.2 is out already! (1.0.3+ will likely have even more fixes, but you'll need to wait for it) Can you install 1.0.2 and try again? abrt-gui in 1.0.2 has a possibility to regenerate a backtrace.
Installing abrt from updates-testing. Will report back after the next Ff crash.
Crash in compiz... ABRT has been looking for debuginfo for the last 10 minutes. Here's the command line it's running. I don't think it's going to finish in my lifetime, so I'm killing it. /usr/bin/yum --enablerepo=*debuginfo* --quiet provides /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/60/e56607981d360f5b92a876477ce224f4125529.debug /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/63/91727667c5490a7ea9bf623922198e37d4fab3.debug /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/73/520e6ba473ddd4ca6c54aac2da3ac03ff59cd5.debug /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/8d/b52870bc789270f14b0459eaf02c679c177178.debug /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/93/b75283b58aae0ac5a340351f28b58ef4f06cb6.debug /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bf/6c0e557eb8ef5c07f4fd8c632c07d996e87160.debug /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bf/ad3faf24656c4d519ff6e0617ed56eb1489050.debug /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f6/a786585bf3ed3bb06ec73e608a16b7f171c39c.debug
I'm not sure Comment 5 represents the same problem as the original report; you might want to re-test with Firefox specifically since you've already installed everything for that. If it's not crashing on its own, you should be able to induce a crash with "killall -SEGV firefox", though the particular type of crash might make a difference. (Obviously, you should save anything important open in your browser first.) I've been looking at similar bugs (e.g. Bug 547027, Bug 552435) and it seems the "unusable" backtrace that *is* produced (visible on the screen when you get the reported error, but also saved in /var/cache/abrt/) sometimes contains useful hints as to what has gone wrong. That might be useful to attach to this report if you can still reproduce the problem. --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
(In reply to comment #5) > Crash in compiz... ABRT has been looking for debuginfo for the last 10 > minutes. Here's the command line it's running. I don't think it's going to > finish in my lifetime, so I'm killing it. > > /usr/bin/yum --enablerepo=*debuginfo* --quiet provides > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/60/e56607981d360f5b92a876477ce224f4125529.debug > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/63/91727667c5490a7ea9bf623922198e37d4fab3.debug > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/73/520e6ba473ddd4ca6c54aac2da3ac03ff59cd5.debug > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/8d/b52870bc789270f14b0459eaf02c679c177178.debug > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/93/b75283b58aae0ac5a340351f28b58ef4f06cb6.debug > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bf/6c0e557eb8ef5c07f4fd8c632c07d996e87160.debug > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/bf/ad3faf24656c4d519ff6e0617ed56eb1489050.debug > /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/f6/a786585bf3ed3bb06ec73e608a16b7f171c39c.debug I, as one of abrt developers, is at a loss what to do here. I _need_ the information from this command. What should I do to make abrt not fall in this trap - kill this command after some timeout and classify it as "failed to get debuginfos"? This can be done, but it would be almost as bad. I created a RFE to yum people, bug 533832, where I ask for yum to give a bit more information about its progress, so that such problems can be better diagnosed. Knowing *why* yum is stuck, and showing it to abrt user, would be an improvement.
Added -R2 ("wait max 2 minutes") to yum.
abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12
abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update abrt'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1598
abrt-1.0.7-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.