Bug 678779 - [abrt] debuginfo files may saturate /var/run and lock up the system
Summary: [abrt] debuginfo files may saturate /var/run and lock up the system
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jiri Moskovcak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-19 15:02 UTC by Joachim Frieben
Modified: 2015-02-01 22:53 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: abrt-2.0.1-2.fc15
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-04-26 16:20:51 UTC
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Description Joachim Frieben 2011-02-19 15:02:24 UTC
Description of problem:
When attempting to report a crash of the current build of "rhythmbox" by means of abrt, debugging information is retrieved in order to create a useful backtrace. One of the concerned packages is webkitgtk3-debuginfo-1.3.11-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm which in the current case is downloaded to /var/run/abrt/tmp-2515-1298125790/.
After the debuginfo package has been downloaded, 20% of /var/run are used. Before having unpacked it completely, 100% of /var/run are used. At this point, the system locks hard, requiring a hard reset.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt-1.1.17-1.fc15.1.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Crash rhythmbox by clicking selecting menu item "Import file...".
2. Report bug via abrt.
  
Actual results:
Retrieving and extracting debugging info for package webkitgtk fails because the 1024 MB tmpfs of /var/run is too small to cope with it.

Expected results:
Debugging info for package webkitgtk is retrieved and unpacked successfully.

Additional info:
According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/var-run-tmpfs "/var/run and /var/lock contain small runtime files", please note the word "SMALL".
For the current F15 tree, /var/run is mounted as tmpfs with a size of 1024 MB (on my system) which seems to be an ample amount. System memory is 2048 MB.
However, downloading the debug info of webkitgtk grabs 20% of /var/run, and the extracted debuginfo exceeds the remaining 80% which led to locking up my system in one case. At a second attempt, abrt gracefully aborted this operation because of unsufficient file system space without locking up the system.

Comment 1 Jiri Moskovcak 2011-03-24 12:24:12 UTC
This should be fixed in current git. The new abrt-debuginfon install script uses /tmp/ for extracting the debuginfo and /var/cache to store it.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-03-27 17:37:47 UTC
abrt-2.0.0-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.0-1.fc15

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-03-29 20:03:23 UTC
abrt-2.0.0-2.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.0-2.fc15

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-03-30 02:33:39 UTC
Package abrt-2.0.0-2.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.0.0-2.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.0-2.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2011-03-30 16:49:59 UTC
abrt-2.0.0-3.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.0-3.fc15

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2011-04-04 14:09:50 UTC
abrt-2.0.0-4.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.0-4.fc15

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2011-04-15 15:11:07 UTC
abrt-2.0.0-5.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.0-5.fc15

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2011-04-20 13:31:42 UTC
abrt-2.0.1-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.1-1.fc15

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2011-04-21 16:46:04 UTC
abrt-2.0.1-2.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.1-2.fc15

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2011-04-26 16:13:25 UTC
abrt-2.0.1-2.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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