Bug 699098 - 999 futile attempts to delete excess debuginfo
Summary: 999 futile attempts to delete excess debuginfo
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Denys Vlasenko
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-23 05:01 UTC by Michal Schmidt
Modified: 2012-08-07 20:25 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 20:25:21 UTC
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Description Michal Schmidt 2011-04-23 05:01:09 UTC
Description of problem:
Today empathy/telepathy crashed on my system. I want to report the crash via ABRT. I chose to analyze the crash using the local gdb method.
In the "Analyzing" step error messages started to appear at a rate about 1 per second:

/var/cache/abrt-di is 5324102002 bytes (more than 4096 MB), deleting '/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/libxul.so.debug'
Can't unlink '/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/libxul.so.debug': Permission denied
/var/cache/abrt-di is 5324102002 bytes (more than 4096 MB), deleting '/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/libxul.so.debug'
Can't unlink '/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/libxul.so.debug': Permission denied
...

At first I thought it was an infinite loop, but eventually it ended. Using wc I counted there were 999 tries before it finished with:

...
Can't unlink '/var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/libxul.so.debug': Permission denied
Analyzing coredump '/home/michich/.abrt/spool/ccpp-2011-04-23-06:33:47-2240/coredump'
Všech 24 souborů s ladicími informacemi je k dostupných
Backtrace is generated and saved, 3325 bytes


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
abrt-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-desktop-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-gui-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-plugin-logger-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-addon-python-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-cli-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-libs-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-plugin-bugzilla-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64
abrt-addon-ccpp-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64


How reproducible:
Well I have not tested it, but I guess it will happen again when I try to report another crash. There's still 5.2 GiB of files under it.

  
Actual results:
999 repeated errors.

Expected results:
A "permission denied" error won't just go away, so don't try the same operation over and over again.
I am not familiar with the architecture of ABRT, but perhaps it was trying to delete the debug files using a wrong UID?

Additional info:
$ ls -ld /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/
drwxr-xr-x. 3 abrt abrt 4096  4. bře 10.11 /var/cache/abrt-di/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/xulrunner-2/

Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2011-04-23 14:48:24 UTC
If you don't mind downloading symbols again, a workaround might be to remove everything in /var/cache/abrt-di/. Although I haven't encountered this bug, I have done that, and abrt seems to handle it fine.

With the debuginfo for dconf-editor:
$ du -sh /var/cache/abrt-di/
847M	/var/cache/abrt-di/

abrt-2.0.1-2.fc15.x86_64

Comment 2 Denys Vlasenko 2011-05-03 11:14:16 UTC
Closing - this should be fixed in git by commit 67a3602e83af42f932e0583d7385d9bcf7ea7e16

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-05-06 10:53:36 UTC
abrt-2.0.2-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.2-1.fc15

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-05-07 15:07:04 UTC
Package abrt-2.0.2-1.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-2.0.2-1.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.2-1.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2011-05-08 04:04:31 UTC
abrt-2.0.2-3.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.2-3.fc15

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