Fedora 13: abrtd dead

[Bill Crawford]

On 28 May 2010 04:52, Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com> wrote:

>        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.

As root, "echo core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" should work.

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

No idea about the crash, but you can reset the file by writing to it (as root).