The abrt gui does not appear when invoked
I am running Fedora 18, 3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64 and I have been using abrt since first installation. Recently I have not been able to get access to the abrt GUI.
I have re-installed abrt and that was successful, yet I am unable to get the GUI. I have reported a number of bugs, so I know it used to work correctly.
I located the abrt icon, in the application search, started it:-
a. I see the application appear to start, cursor turns to a "operation wait"
b. Application exits
c. No error logged in messages
Apr 9 11:11:18 userPC dbus[972]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC yum[23109]: Installed: abrt-2.1.2-2.fc18.x86_64
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Stopping Install ABRT coredump hook...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Stopping ABRT kernel log watcher...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Stopping Harvest vmcores for ABRT...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Stopping ABRT Xorg log watcher...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Stopping ABRT Automated Bug Reporting Tool...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC abrtd: Got signal 15, exiting
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Starting ABRT Automated Bug Reporting Tool...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Started ABRT Automated Bug Reporting Tool.
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Starting Install ABRT coredump hook...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC abrtd: Init complete, entering main loop
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC dbus[972]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC dbus-daemon[972]: dbus[972]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper)
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Starting ABRT kernel log watcher...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Started ABRT kernel log watcher.
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Starting Harvest vmcores for ABRT...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Starting ABRT Xorg log watcher...
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Started ABRT Xorg log watcher.
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC dbus-daemon[972]: dbus[972]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC dbus[972]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Started Install ABRT coredump hook.
Apr 9 11:11:49 userPC systemd[1]: Started Harvest vmcores for ABRT.
Apr 9 11:13:05 userPC dbus-daemon[972]: dbus[972]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.problems' (using servicehelper)
Apr 9 11:13:05 userPC dbus[972]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.problems' (using servicehelper)
Apr 9 11:13:05 userPC dbus-daemon[972]: dbus[972]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.problems'
Apr 9 11:13:05 userPC dbus[972]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.problems'
Apr 9 11:22:46 userPC kernel: [115669.450488] usb 1-1.5.4: reset high-speed USB device ...