Bug 755671 - abrt incorrectly describes kernel warnings as crashes
Summary: abrt incorrectly describes kernel warnings as crashes
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jiri Moskovcak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ABRTF17
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Reported: 2011-11-21 17:55 UTC by Matthew Garrett
Modified: 2015-02-01 22:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-12-14 11:58:20 UTC
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Description Matthew Garrett 2011-11-21 17:55:06 UTC
abrt just popped up a message telling me that a crash had been detected in the kernel. In reality, dmesg just shows a warning. Warnings aren't considered high-priority issues, shouldn't be brought to the user's attention in this way and certainly shouldn't be described as crashes.

Comment 1 Jiri Moskovcak 2011-11-24 09:33:01 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 639068 ***

Comment 2 Matthew Garrett 2011-11-24 14:27:21 UTC
Not really a duplicate - warnings shouldn't be reported to the user at all.

Comment 3 Jiri Moskovcak 2011-11-25 08:28:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Not really a duplicate - warnings shouldn't be reported to the user at all.

- I don't understand it, so if users are not supposed to know about the warnings why to print them to logs when kernel is compiled without the debugging flags? If I remember correctly even the old kerneloops tool did that...

Comment 4 Jiri Moskovcak 2011-11-25 08:32:53 UTC
After thinking more about this ... We can make abrt to just notify user about the warnings, but not allow him to report it (like we did with the broken bios warnings: #701171), but can someone guarantee that all kernel devs use warnings consistently? AFAICT they don't ...


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