Debugging ABRT

Check steps described in :ref:`wontcatch`. If this won't solve your problem proceed with steps described on this page.

ABRT log messages

Look for failures in system log:

journalctl | grep abrt

or if your system doesn't support journal:

grep abrt /var/log/messages

Possible reasons for abrt not handling crashes might include:

abrtd not running due to permission errors
DUP_OF_DIR: <dir> your crash is a duplicate of previous crash
Executable '<exe>' doesn't belong to any package and ProcessUnpackaged is set to 'no' — see :ref:`unpackaged`
Your package is not GPG signed — see :ref:`nongpg`
Crashing executable has setuid bit set — see :ref:`suided`

If abrtd malfunctions try stopping it and running it in foreground with verbose mode enabled:

systemctl stop abrtd
abrtd -vvv -d

If it hangs use gdb to attach to it and produce a backtrace:

gdb /usr/sbin/abrtd $( pidof abrtd ) -batch -ex 'bt full'