Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because
the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.
RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.
DescriptionAlexander Todorov
2013-01-24 11:13:23 UTC
Created attachment 686663[details]
screen shot
Description of problem:
I had experienced Firefox crash and wanted to report it.
Let alone the fact that ABRT requires me to run it as root in order to install packages it tells me it can't find 90 debug files. See screenshot.
The issue is that ABRT gives me a list of the missing files but not the name of their packages or at least the name of the libraries/binaries. I have to manually search the provides for each debug file and install it by hand.
Please improve this.
Another problem is that we can't tell you the names of the packages because we don't know them. Otherwise (if we'd know the package names), we'd be able to install them, and there will be no "Missing debuginfo file" messages.
Comment 3Alexander Todorov
2013-02-28 09:58:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Another problem is that we can't tell you the names of the packages because
> we don't know them. Otherwise (if we'd know the package names), we'd be able
> to install them, and there will be no "Missing debuginfo file" messages.
Can't you use "yum install FILE(s)" as you suggest then?
(In reply to Alexander Todorov from comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Another problem is that we can't tell you the names of the packages because
> > we don't know them. Otherwise (if we'd know the package names), we'd be able
> > to install them, and there will be no "Missing debuginfo file" messages.
>
> Can't you use "yum install FILE(s)" as you suggest then?
The reason for missing debuginfo files is the failed yum install FILE(s) so no, we can't improve it. It usually means, that you have installed something which is not in enabled repositories or is not packaged at all. And that's the reason why ABRT can't find the debuginfo. Denys's suggestion is mainly for debugging the issue, because if you're able to find the package running that command, then it means there is a bug in abrt.
Created attachment 686663 [details] screen shot Description of problem: I had experienced Firefox crash and wanted to report it. Let alone the fact that ABRT requires me to run it as root in order to install packages it tells me it can't find 90 debug files. See screenshot. The issue is that ABRT gives me a list of the missing files but not the name of their packages or at least the name of the libraries/binaries. I have to manually search the provides for each debug file and install it by hand. Please improve this.