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kt53
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Automatic Bug Reporting Tool / coredump

Post by kt53 » 2018/01/16 02:55:02

Greetings:

On December 21st, I did an update and I got this message:
ABRT has detected 1 problem(s). For more info run: abrt-cli list --since 1513391187
The updates were for java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.
Then I checked for more info:

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root / # abrt-cli list --since 1513391187
id <40 alpha-numeric characters ...>
reason:         escd killed by SIGABRT
time:           Wed 20 Dec 2017 07:21:47 PM EST
cmdline:        ./escd '--key_Inserted=\"/usr/bin/esc\"' '--on_Signal=\"/usr/bin/esc\"'
uid:            1000
Directory:      /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2017-12-20-19:21:47-2017
Reported:       cannot be reported

The Autoreporting feature is disabled. Please consider enabling it by issuing
'abrt-auto-reporting enabled' as a user with root privileges
root / # 
root / # abrt-auto-reporting enabled
root / # 
Then I checked for coredumps

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root / # find . -type f -name coredump
./var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2017-12-20-19:21:47-2017/coredump
./var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2016-06-14-23:17:37-20533/coredump
./var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2016-12-19-20:48:35-4134/coredump
find: './run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
root / # 
Question is: Are/were these coredumps of any use and can they be deleted now?

Thanks,
KT/Indy

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TrevorH
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Re: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool / coredump

Post by TrevorH » 2018/01/16 07:16:57

Having ABRT enabled on CentOS is pretty pointless as no-one ever looks at the tickets that get raised.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool / coredump

Post by lightman47 » 2018/01/16 13:25:01

Having ABRT enabled on CentOS is pretty pointless as no-one ever looks at the tickets that get raised.
{grimace}
Nice to know - thanks.

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Re: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool / coredump

Post by lightman47 » 2018/01/16 19:01:06

OK - how do I disable this?

I did "sudo abrt-auto-reporting disabled" as 'semi-suggested' in RH page on Enabling it. Is there a "proper" way do turn off abrt that doesn't result in delays/messages from components that complain because of my actions?

In the meantime, I'll just re-enable it.

I'd considered removing but, having seen the list of packages involved, I expect it'll want to take out most of my system for dependency reasons. I'll just ask here.

Thank you.

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