abrt usage

[COKEDUDE]

Do you need a gui for abrt? Is there any point to let it run at run level 3?

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...e/ch28s02.html
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/...e/ch19s02.html

[DBelton]

It's 2 different applications.

First off.. No, you don't really need a GUI for abrt. It's just to make it a little easier to see the crash dumps and to report the errors.

And yes, the abrt daemon does need to run at runlevel 3 (multi-user.target) so that it catches errors even if you aren't running a graphical desktop.

The daemon is sitting there looking for crashes to occur, and catches the information needed when one does occur and creates the crash dumps.

The GUI is used after the crash occurs for you to go in and look at the crash dumps and to report it if you wish.

Now if you wish to, and don't want to have any of the crash dumps available to you, then you can completely disable abrt. Just set it so that the daemon doesn't run, and then in your gnome-session-properties, set the GUI so it doesn't start with Gnome.

[AdamW]

abrt actually has a CLI interface for reporting crashes from the console, if X isn't working or you're catching a crash from a server or something. It's in package abrt-cli (from the 'duh' files).

and yeah, abrt in itself is not a critical 'thing'. if you're not interested in what it does - allow you to file a bug report with a full backtrace whenever something crashes - you can turn it off and nothing will explode.