ABRT(1)

🎀 ABRT(1) · the ABRT Manual 🎀

okay bestie, this is your guide to ABRT, the tool that keeps track of crashes ("problems") on your machine 💖 It's giving organized, and I'm obsessed. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

abrt — Manage problems handled by ABRT 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

abrt [OPTIONS...] SUBCOMMAND [MATCH]

Basically you toss in some optional OPTIONS, pick a SUBCOMMAND, and maybe add a MATCH to point at a specific problem 🧚

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -a, --auth — Log in and see every problem on this machine, not just yours 🔐
• -v, --version — Show the program's version number, then bounce 👋
• -h, --help — Pull up the help message 🙈

👑 SUBCOMMANDS 👑

• list — See all the problems ABRT has handled 📋
• info — Print the tea on one problem ☕
• report — Report a problem 📣
• remove — Delete a problem 🗑️
• backtrace — Show the backtrace of a problem 🧵
• retrace — Build a backtrace from a coredump 🔍
• gdb — Run GDB (the GNU Project debugger) against a problem 🐛
• debuginfo-install — Install the debuginfo packages a problem needs 📦
• status — Check how many recent crashes there have been 📈

okay so for the detailed list of options for any subcommand, run abrt help SUBCOMMAND 🫶

🎯 MATCHING 🎯

Subcommands that need a single problem, like info or backtrace, will automatically grab the last problem that happened on your system, unless you specify a MATCH 💀

A MATCH can be a component name, a short hash (you can grab these from the list subcommand), or both together in the form <component>@<hash>. It's giving precision 🎀

💅 EXAMPLES 💅

List all problems handled by ABRT 📋

$ abrt list

List problems with the built-in format ✨

$ abrt list --pretty=oneline

List problems with a custom format 🌈

$ abrt list --fmt '{count}x {short_id} {what}'

Display detailed information about a problem 🔥

$ abrt info --pretty full kernel

Run GDB against the last problem 🐛

$ abrt gdb

Generate a backtrace from the last problem's coredump and make a detailed mail report 💌

$ abrt retrace
$ abrt info --pretty email

🧚 FORMATTING 🧚

Here are the fields you can use for custom formatting, periodt 💖

• {what} — either the component name or the executable 🧩
• {count} — the number of occurrences 🔢
• {time} — the time of the last occurrence ⏰
• {short_id} — the short hash 🔑
• {uid} — the user ID 🆔
• {username} — the username 🫶
• {uid_username} — a combo of the two fields above (uid and username) 💜
• {path} — the full path to the problem data directory 🗂️
• {package} — the affected package 📦
• {cmdline} — the command line used to start an application 🚀

🦋 AUTHORS 🦋

• ABRT team 🌟

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abrt 2.17.9 · 08/03/2026 · ABRT(1) 💖 Thanks for reading, bestie, you're literally the best 🫶✨