Fedora: Starting abrt daemon: abrtd: Failed to start: timeout waiting for child

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This is listed as Bug 524469 but never a real solution was drawn.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524469

However, this is an easy thing, that the user abrt was not created.

This cab be figured by running

$ abrtd -vvvv

Cure: create the user abrt, as:

abrt:x:399:398::/etc/abrt:/sbin/nologin

Also you will need to make sure that certain lines exist in group, gshadow, and shadow.

Redhat/Fedora team is very unresponsible to bugs.  I cannot even post this in there since they closed this issue.

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