[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.

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