Programming :: Core Dump Issues. Program Crashes But Does Not Generate Core Dump File?
Oct 7, 2009
I want to generate core dump files from my program when it crashes. Its a pretty big process and has about 10-11 threads in it.I have followed the documentation to enable core dump by setting ulimit to unlimited etc. I quickly tried "A demo program creating a core dump" from the following webpage, which succeeds in Segfault and dumping a core file in the directory that I configured.However, I tried running my original program and caused it to crash. I did this by making calls to kill(), raise() or the same null pointer access as shown in the webpage above. In each case, my program crashed but did not generate a core dump file. Am I missing something?My program is in C++ and my environment is Redhat 9.0 (kernel 2.4.20)
Going through the "Why do I NOT get a core dump?" section on the same webpage as above, I can see two potential problems. One - there are issues with the suid/sgid (bullet # 6). I am not able to change any settings with suid because my system does not contain either /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable or /proc/sys/kernel/suid_dumpableTwo, my program has threads in it and the bullet # 8 is the problem.
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Jul 21, 2010
To analyse a coredump, I need to specify program name/path in GDB/KDevelop. Since the program name along with arguments is also within a core dump, I wonder if it doesn't keep the proper path of program that crashed and so asks for it?
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Dec 29, 2010
I am using RHEL 4.7 (32bit) on HP Proliant 380G6 series server. We are using Electric Cloud Agents on these servers. Nowadays we are facing some memory issues and its creates some kernel panic and then restarts the server. When i reported the issue to my application team, they asked me to come with the core dump. I googled it enough, then i set ulimit value as unlimited. (previously it was 0, then i made a entry in /etc/profile file as follows
ulimit -c unlimited) But still whenever my server restarts due to that kernel panic, it couldnt generate the core dump. My application was installed on /opt
The attached document has the kernel panic logs
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Oct 21, 2010
I am developing an application whose executable is generated inside a certain folder hierarchy (say: /DevPath/MyProject/bin). My source code is located in a different branch of this hierarchy (say: /DevPath/MyProject/src). When my app crashes, its core files are stored in /DevPath/MyProject. I'm developing the app on a pc, but running it on a separate platform in which i can only execute it. Folder hierarchy is the same as above on both computers. Usually, when a new executable version is ready, we update both the executable and the source code on the target platform, transferring all the new /DevPath/MyProject folder on it. But sometimes it can really be a bother, so we update only the executable.
1)In the case we only update the executable, keeping an old source code version, and the app generates a core file, can i trust the backtrace produced by gdb in this case? I.e., does gdb need the latest source code files or it just needs the debugging information?
2) (More radical question ) Do i really need to keep the source code on the target platform for core dump analysis or i just need the executable?
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Nov 8, 2010
In one of our core dump we have the followings in the core back trace:
#0 0xb77bf947 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1 0xb77c10c9 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2 0xb77f56ba in __fsetlocking () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#3 0xb77fcf7f in mallopt () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#4 0xb77fd022 in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
It occurred in a memory block free operation. From our analysis, there seems no issue relate the the memory block it self. The memory pointer pointed to the right memory block to be freed and the contents of the memory seems right (not corrupted), in one world, there is nothing obviously wrong. Does any one have any ideas what could be wrong when seeing about?
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Sep 20, 2010
I am trying to port some "C" code from Solaris to Linux. I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 with an Intel Xeon E5504 quad core processor running Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.3. I am compiling in 64 bit mode. I have managed to get the code compiled and linked, but when I attempt to execute it, I get a core dump in one of the C library calls (like strcpy or printf.)
I have a static library that contains our own code that makes the call to the C library. If I move the library method into the source file with the main method and rename it to be certain that I am executing my method instead of the method in our library, the call succeeds. Eventually another static library call is made that results in a core dump in the shared object. I compile my library code into a static library with gcc as:
[Code]....
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Nov 12, 2009
i just touch linux, may i know how can i convert the core dump file to a readable textfile, which include all the information, which is in core dump, such as all variables, threads information, call trace for each tasks, and so on. i know use the GDB can view this, but it won't dump all the informations to one text file. but sometimes, people want to view the core dump reason without Linux environment.
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May 27, 2010
To get core dump from my program, I execute the following commands from the terminal:
ulimit -c unlimited
myprogram
After program crash, I see core file in the home directory. How can I make this mode persistent, to have code dump always?
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Jul 27, 2011
In my program, I fork() to get a child process. Because of some problem, child process terminates by a segmentation fault. Parent process is still running. I have compiled my code with -g option. I have done: ulimit -c unlimited. I am not getting core dump of the child process. How can I get the core dump of child process?
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Oct 22, 2010
I modified the following files according to all I found after googling the net:
/etc/security/limits.conf
* soft core unlimited
/etc/profile
ulimit -c unlimited[code]....
I don't get a core file when I kill -11 <pid_of_sleep>
System is centos 5.3
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Sep 6, 2010
I have used Dump Command to dump the application files. For Full backup the level 0 is working fine. For incremental backup I used the level 1 or 2 it is getting the error as
DUMP: Only level 0 dumps are allowed on a subdirectory
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
The code I used
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#!/bin/bash
#Full Day Backup Script
#application folders backup
#test is the username
now=$(date +"%d-%m-%Y")
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Dec 7, 2010
I'm posting because I've read everything I can find on google and in the forum and the man page and still can't get it to work. I did read the FAQ, I hope I have adhered to it.I've tried several things and I don't remember exactly everything I tried and in what order.I've got several (12) HP ProLiant DL140 G3 servers running CentOS 5 that lockup about once a week. These are in a remote colo cage so I all i have access to is the built-in HP lights-out management interface, which includes a console, and ssh. I've been trying to get kdump setup to try to figure out what's going on. As an aside, if I run top on the console (via the management interface) the servers stay up for about a week, if I don't run top they crash within about 48 hours.I've used yum update to update to the latest available kernel (2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.x86_64) and installed the debuginfo and debuginfo-common RPMs from http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/x86_64/I have a single command in the /etc/kdump.conf file:ext3 /dev/sda5
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Mar 26, 2011
I've a program that launches new processes, and wait for them to die before it exits. So, for example, my program is a process, and it launches 3 more processes, and when the 3 child processes end, it will exit.
As you see, at end of the example, the program used a total number of 4 processes.
1 - Now, I'm running this program in a CPU with 4 cores. This means that the program used each core for each process?
2 - How can I know which core the program used?
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Oct 31, 2010
Is there any Linux API that will let me control on what core will a thread run? If not, do I have to use assembly language?
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Apr 27, 2010
Assume someone bind a particular process to a particular CPU core(In multi core machine) by using sched_setaffinity() like functions. Then how we can get that process running core id and CPU core utilisation of that process on that running CPU core(Pragmatically or by a Linux command)?.
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Jun 1, 2010
I'm trying to setup apache2 to drop a core file when it crashes. I know that you need to set the CoreDumpDirectory directive in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and run "ulimit -c unlimited" from the command line (and restart apache after the ulimit command). But, on a reboot, even though the output of "ulimit -a" shows unlimited, apache2 will not create a core dump file unliess you set ulimit -c unlimited again and restart apache2. There must be a way to configure apache2.conf or something so that ulimit -c unlimited is set prior to apache2 starting, no?
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Feb 3, 2011
I'm running into some problems using pkill in my scripts. I'm using a program that needs to dump.
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Jan 26, 2011
i have a server & there is a website which generate alot of core files, these core files takeup alot of space by time, so i decided to stop it, in WHM the core dump option is disabled, & i used the following command
Code:
ulimit -c 0 but nothing stoped generating core files, i also used the following method http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-disable-core-dumps/ also this method doesnt stop generating of core dump files, my question is : how i can permenantly stop generating core files for all users or for specific user
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Apr 28, 2009
How do I get a full kernel dump?
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Feb 18, 2010
I got a backup file which first 1000 bytes are as follows:
Code:
00000000 54 41 50 45 00 00 03 00 8c 00 0e 01 00 00 00 00 |TAPE............|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00000030 02 00 87 05 51 64 50 48 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 |....QdPH........|
[code]....
I tried to restore it:
Code:
$ restore -r -f zzz_labxxxx
Checksum error 32615101403, inode 0 file (null)
restore: Tape is not a dump tape
What application could I use or even try? The man who made the backup can't be reached anymore and we had been left with the backup.
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Apr 21, 2010
I have a process which runs for a while and then due to some unknown reason ends abruptly without giving a core. I tried looking in the logs and after watching for a pattern am still not 100% sure of the reason. So I was wondering if there is a way to catch the signal which ends the process and print some values in the handler function. I have called the handler for SIGTERM and SIGABRT functions but none of these are getting triggered. I looked online and did not find any other option. Can you please suggest if tehre is any other signal that can be caught for this unknown abrupt termination.
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Feb 17, 2010
I'm trying to write a C program that extends an array to any user inputed size.
Code:
if (arraysize == 0) {
arraysize = (int) pos + 1;
a = (int *) calloc (arraysize,sizeof(int));
for (i = 0 ; i < arraysize ; i++ )
a[i] = -1;
code....
The program dumps with that sequence of inputs everytime, but might dump an input before or after if different positions are requested. Interestingly, when I tested pos = 2000..2008, I got no dumps. So is realloc somehow trying to extend the array into bad space?
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Apr 1, 2011
i am running gigabyte GA-M68M-S2P and AMD sempron 2.7. the problem is when i try to run dual core. it will boot and run for 2mins then it crashes. single core runs perfect.
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Oct 21, 2009
How to create a dump of an existing file and how to restore it with command line?
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May 13, 2010
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Nov 3, 2010
I just loaded F14 on an old Dell Dimension 3000 with a dual core processor but only one is showing. Here's the output from top:
processor: 0
vendor_id: GenuineIntel
cpu family: 15
model: 4
[Code]....
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Mar 27, 2011
I have a command line OCR program called OCR Shop XTR (Vividata corp) that I am using on a system with a 6-core AMD chip. I changed the bios so that the 6-cores were activated, but htop shows me that while the program is running, I am only getting activity on one core (the program maxes out the one core with consistent usage between 97% and 100%).
I have read that many programs are not written to take advantage of multiple core cpu's. However, I am just hoping that there is some way to get this program to take advantage of the extra cores. Does anyone know of a way to invoke programs from the command line which would spread the workload out among additional cores?
Here is the output of uname -a:Linux linux 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-02-21 10:34:10 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/LinuxAnd here is the output for one of the cores from cat /proc/cpuinfo:processor : 5
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 10
model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor
stepping : 0
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Feb 14, 2010
Just a quick question. Does Kubuntu Karmic support core 2 E8500 out of the box or do you need the SMP kernel?
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Jun 22, 2011
Using getrlimit I am setting the core file size to be RLIM_INFINITY. But still the core file is not being generated,although in /var/log/messages it says a core is being generated
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Sep 7, 2011
I have now installed Wheezy on two different hard drives and in each case it seems only one CPU of my dual core CPU computer is recognized. System Monitor, Gkrellm and lscpu show just one when prior to the new install the old Wheezy showed both CPU's. I have put the hard drive into two other computers with dual core CPU's and all show just one CPU.
Interestingly System Profiler and Benchmark (hardinfo?) > Devices > Processors now show a large amount of processor infomation when with the old Wheezy I would only see both CPU's listed and nothing else.
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