Revision as of 00:34, 3 November 2009

Description

This test case is designed to confirm that abrt can properly detect and diagnose application crashes from C/C++ programs.

Inspect /etc/abrt/abrt.conf and ensure that abrt is configured to detect C program crashes. A sample configuration will include the CCpp plugin, as seen below:
```
EnabledPlugins = CCpp
```
Also in /etc/abrt/abrt.conf, ensure a reporting mechanism is configured for the CCpp plugin. A sample configuration that uses the Logger reporting plugin is noted below
```
CCpp = Logger
```
Restart the abrt service
```
service abrtd restart
```
Choose a C or C++ application to crash. For this example, we will use the sleep command which is provided by coreutils.
Run the application you wish to capture a crash. If using the sleep command, open a terminal and run the command:
```
sleep 5m
```
In another terminal, force an application crash by locating the process id, and using the kill command. For example,
```
pkill -SIGSEGV sleep
```
Open abrt-gui by clicking the desktop notification icon and generate a crash report.

The abrt application detects the failure by updating the desktop icon
Clicking the icon, or running the command abrt-gui displays the recently failed application
Selecting the application from abrt-gui and reporting the failure generates a proper backtrace. (FIXME ... perhaps a link to what a good backtrace is)

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 # Inspect {{filename|/etc/abrt/abrt.conf}} and ensure that ''abrt'' is configured to detect C program crashes.  A sample configuration will include the ''CCpp'' plugin, as seen below: <pre>EnabledPlugins = CCpp</pre>
 # Also in {{filename|/etc/abrt/abrt.conf}}, ensure a reporting mechanism is configured for the ''CCpp'' plugin.  A sample configuration that uses the ''Logger'' reporting plugin is noted below <pre>CCpp = Logger</pre>
-# Restart the ''abrt'' service <pre>service abrt restart</pre>
+# Restart the ''abrt'' service <pre>service abrtd restart</pre>
 # Choose a C or C++ application to crash.  For this example, we will use the {{command|sleep}} command which is provided by {{package|coreutils}}.
 # Run the application you wish to capture a crash.  If using the {{command|sleep}} command, open a terminal and run the command: <pre>sleep 5m</pre>