ABRT-ACTION-GENERA(1)

Okay bestie, welcome to the ABRT Manual 💅 today we're looking at ABRT-ACTION-GENERA(1) and it's giving crash analysis, so let's get into it ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

abrt-action-generate-backtrace is the tool that analyzes a coredump and generates and saves a backtrace 🦋

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

abrt-action-generate-backtrace [-v] [-d DIR] [-t NUM]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so this tool runs gdb(1) on a file named coredump sitting in the problem directory DIR 🔍 gdb(1) then generates a backtrace plus other diagnostic info about what the app was doing at the exact moment coredump got made. Then the tool saves that backtrace as a new element called backtrace in the same problem directory. Main character energy, no cap ✨

🦋 Integration with libreport events 🦋

abrt-action-generate-backtrace can be used as an analyzer for application crashes that dump core. Literally perfect for that job 💅

Example usage in report_event.conf:

EVENT=analyze analyzer=CCpp
        abrt-action-generate-backtrace

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -d DIR — Path to the problem directory. Point it at the right place, bestie 📁
• -v — Be more verbose, so it talks more 🗣️ You can stack it and give it multiple times if you want extra chatty output 💜
• -t NUM — Kill gdb if it runs for more than NUM seconds. Nobody's got time for a gdb that's been going forever 💀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• ABRT team 🫶

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That's the whole page, bestie! 🌈 You just read abrt 2.17.9, dated 08/03/2026, ABRT-ACTION-GENERA(1) 💖✨