Hi all, I'm running Zorin 15.3 Core version & have a program which has an intermittent crash to the desktop, I've spoken with the developer & they'd like to see a coredump of the program
I've tried
open terminal
cd program folder
ulimit -c unlimited
./program
use program until it crashes
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern is "core" so I'm expecting a file called "core" or possibly "core.{pidnumber}" to appear in the program folder but no new files appear
I have write access to the programs folder & I've even searched the entire disk with no joy
So obviously I'm doing something wrong and the coredump isn't being generated, any suggestions ?
I believe in LTS versions of Ubuntu which Zorin is based upon, core dumping is disabled.
But you can enable it by entering this command into the terminal
Ran the program to a crash and didn't get a coredump in the current directory or in /usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccppul
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains
core
Which as I understand it will cause the crash dump to be put in the current directory and have the name "core" which I'm fine with, I don't want to move it anywhere
I don't want to enable core dumps permanently, just this one time
It's beginning to look like core dumping isn't just disabled, it's not installed, though I have no idea how to check for this
@Aravisian
It's specific to the actual program, I run it & tell it to do a list of things, it gets about halfway through & I get dumped to the desktop
The coredump is needed so the developer can debug their program
But as Zorin disables coredumps by default I needed to make sure I could produce one when needed, especially as I seem to be the only one with this issue
At least I've eliminated Zorin as the reason there's no dump
I understand. Without knowing the program or more about it, we cannot help try to diagnose it. But perhaps that program has a support desk as well with regular users who can give some input.