[email protected] writes: > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:17:52 +0100 >> Von: Thomas Adam <[email protected]> >> An: Michael Gro?er <[email protected]> >> CC: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: FVWM: Fvwmpager crashes if no pages are to be shown > >> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 01:10:42PM +0200, Michael Gro?er wrote: >> > Result: I cannot find a way to get "ulimit -c" returning >> > an "unlimited" result. >> >> It's really quite simple. You do this in your ~/.bashrc file: >> >> ulimit -c unlimited >> >> ... and then you start FVWM in the normal way. >> >> Don't go near /etc/security/limits.conf -- that's per-process, and not >> what >> you're after. >> > > Hi! > > It seems that I am one step closer to get a core file. > "ulimit -c" now returns an "unlimited" result. > Problem is that I cannot provoke any core dump from any > application. > > Which directory is to contain the core dump after FvwmPager > crashes? The home directory "~" of the user? What is to be the > name of the core dump file? Is it "~/core"?
The core file should be in $HOME. The file name will be ~/core.nnnnn where nnnnn is some number. > How can I generally provoke core dumps? > I used "killall -9" to kill xterm, bash, firefox-bin, acroread > and mplayer. Nothing of these applications created a core > dump. Provoke the core dump by causing the Pager to crash. After you have a core file, ask us what to do next.
