Fedora 13: abrtd dead

[Braden McDaniel]

For some reason, abrtd is not running on my system.
system-config-services shows it as "dead".

/var/log/messages includes these bits that appear to come from abrtd
startup:

        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Reporter plugin 'Bugzilla'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Action plugin 'KerneloopsScanner'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Reporter plugin 'KerneloopsReporter'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Analyzer plugin 'Python'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Analyzer plugin 'Kerneloops'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Analyzer plugin 'CCpp'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Reporter plugin 'Logger'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Checking for unsaved crashes (dirs to check:10)
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: Registered Database plugin 'SQLite3'
        May 26 20:00:42 bolt abrtd: invalid number ''

The last part looks a bit suspicious.

There's also bits like this:

        May 25 20:45:30 bolt abrt[9286]: abrt daemon is not running. If it crashed, /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains a stale value, consider resetting it to 'core'

/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern just contains:

        |/usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccpp /var/cache/abrt %p %s %u %c

As I'm not able to edit this file, I'm not entirely clear on what
"resetting it to 'core'" means.

What went wrong here, and how might I repair it?

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>