Description of problem: My abrt-gui has stopped working. The screen takes a long time to draw/redraw and is completely unresponsive. My messages file fills up with the following message repeated frequently while the gui app is running. May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: warning: /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern was already set to run a crash analyser (|/usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccpp /var/cache/abrt %p %s %u %c), abrt may interfere with it May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: Registered Analyzer plugin 'CCpp' May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: Registered Analyzer plugin 'Kerneloops' May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: Registered Action plugin 'KerneloopsScanner' May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: Registered Reporter plugin 'KerneloopsReporter' May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: Registered Analyzer plugin 'Python' May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: Checking for unsaved crashes (dirs to check:4) May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: Registered Database plugin 'SQLite3' May 11 08:13:23 blink abrtd: invalid number '' It also appears that my daemon has crashed, and continues to crash when restarted. E.g. when my nautilus crashed, my log file showed; May 11 07:42:18 blink kernel: nautilus[29671]: segfault at c ip 0811d200 sp bfb0a620 error 4 in nautilus[8045000+1da000] May 11 07:42:18 blink abrt[32766]: abrt daemon is not running. If it crashed, /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains a stale value, consider resetting it to 'core' Following ths instructions and setting the value to core makes no difference to the gui or daemon. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abrt-1.1.0-1.fc13.i686 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Hi Simon, Thank you for the report. Workaround for this problem is to remove the contents of /var/cache/abrt (deletes all your saved crashes). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 580899 ***