F18: abrt not catching segfaults by cups und dnsmasq

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Feb 18 00:32:44 UTC 2013


On 17/02/13 12:19 PM, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have reproducable segfaults in dnsmasq and cups. I wanted to use ABRT
> to diagnose them, but abrt does not reliable catch them.
>
> ABRT got one of > 20 cups crashes and none of dnsmasqs segfaults.
>
> Any ideas ? Should ABRT get them ?

Try running it as root. Up to F19, you have to run abrt-gui as root to 
find crashes in processes that run as root (rather than your user). In 
F19, it seems to have grown a 'show all crashes' button that uses 
PolicyKit to gain privileges to see root crashes - neat.
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