how do I enable core file creation at process crash?[SOLVED]

zzaappp · Apprentice Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 176

I have a nasty porting bug I'm working on. Very recently a "stable" application was built for 64-bit linux. Back in 32-bit land it was very stable. Now in 64-bits it crashes.

Back at the start of my career I remember core dumps showed up every time a process crashed. Those were very useful: I could load the debugger against the core and examine the stack and registers at the time of crash, and at least have a clue as where the failure was at.

Is there a way to enable the creation of core dumps for crashed processes? It would really help me out.

Thanks!

-z

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:50 pm Post subject:

See How to get meaningful backtraces in Gentoo.

- John
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zzaappp · Apprentice Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 176

This is EXACTLY why I love gentoo: The forums.

Thank you SO much for the help. I was really under the wire for this.

-z