Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic <file>.core question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961022185859.6076F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961022095041.12010A-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > I had a program drop core on SIGABRT last night and I was wondering > if I can find out what might have caused it. I have the .core file. > The exact msg was: > > /kernal : pid 134 (msqld), uid 0: exited on signal 6 > > I have read a few discussions on stepping through a core file, but I never > read enough to findout exactly how to do this. Use gdb: gdb program.core If it uses shared libs and/or it wasn't compiled with -g then some of the names won't appear. There is a way to fix the shared libs bit posted not to long ago. Note that sig6's default action is to terminate & dump core if the program doesn't otherwise handle it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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