ABRT-ACTION-ANALYZ(1)

🎀 Welcome to the ABRT Manual 🎀

Okay bestie, this is the page for abrt-action-analyze-vmcore 💖 It's the one that reads kernel crash stuff for you, so let's go!

✨ NAME ✨

abrt-action-analyze-vmcore 🔥 — Extracts the oops message from the kernel core and install the kernel debuginfo if needed 💅

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

abrt-action-analyze-vmcore [-v] [-d PROBLEM_DIR] [--tmpdir=TMPDIR]
[--cache=DIR1[:DIR2]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this tool opens up the file called vmcore inside a problem data directory and processes it, along with the oops message hiding in there 🙈 Then it saves all of that as a brand new element called backtrace. iconic, honestly 👑

🌸 Integration with ABRT events

lowkey the best part is that abrt-action-analyze-vmcore can be used as an analyzer for critical kernel crashes that dump core 😭 it's giving main character energy ✨

Example usage in report_event.conf: 🧚

EVENT=analyze_VMcore analyzer=vmcore
        abrt-action-analyze-vmcore

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d DIR — Point it at a problem directory 🗂️ If you don't pass this one, it just uses your current working directory.
• -v — Be more verbose 🔊 You can stack it and give it multiple times if you want extra chatter.
• --core=VMCORE — The path to the vmcore you want analyzed 💜 (Default: ./vmcore)

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

• ABRT team 🫶

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Okay that's the whole page, bestie 💖 You're literally going to slay with this 💅 abrt 2.17.9 · 08/03/2026 · ABRT-ACTION-ANALYZ(1) 🌈✨