The abrtd daemon requires user 'abrt' to start

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • abrtd requires the presence of an 'abrt' user. This requirement has been updated in the Documentation
$ sudo service abrtd start
Starting abrt daemon: abrtd: Failed to start: got sig 17
                                                           [FAILED]
$ grep abrtd /var/log/syslog
Aug 21 20:59:48 hostname abrtd: Can't find user 'abrt'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, 7.x

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