On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Hi, > > Currently we have coredumpctl installed by default, but it doesn't work > because core dumps are consumed by ABRT instead. I'd like to get > coredumpctl working out-of-the-box. We can do this by changing our > systemd presets [1] to disable abrt-ccpp.service. > > ABRT will continue to function thanks to the ABRT developers' work on > coredumpctl integration via abrt-vmcore.service. There is a somewhat- > reduced feature set, but I've been running this for several months > happily and I haven't noticed any issues; my crashes are being reported > to FAF, and I can manually report to Bugzilla. See [2] for details. +1 to integrating abrt to use coredump as a "backend". > This might be slightly controversial for two reasons. First, the big > change here is that core dumps will appear in the magical and super- > awesome coredumpctl tool in addition to ABRT, but would no longer be > created in the cwd when ulimit is set appropriately (we would need to > feature that in the release notes). I don't think that's a problem in practice. For most people coredumps are annoying, and use up disk space unless you remember to clean them up. And coredumps stored by systemd-coredump are still easily accessible (although they might be compressed, but this can be easily turned off it desired). Having the coredumps go through systemd-coredump gives us a robust and convenient way to gather coredumps, also during boot. > This aligns us with upstream > systemd behavior, but diverges from Debian and Ubuntu, which still > create the old-style coredumps in the cwd. Second, my understanding is > that the ABRT developers prefer to improve abrt-cli and tell people to > use that rather than coredumpctl. But as coredumpctl is very mature > (nicer) and cross-distro so it gets many more contributors, I > definitely prefer to instruct people to use coredumpctl instead for > C/C++ crashes. > > We could totally do this change for F24 as well as it should be just a > one-line change, but in the spirit of beta freeze I figure it's > probably best left for F25. Zbyszek -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
