On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:50:00PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > X has been crashing (signal 11) here sometimes (once a day, or maybe > once every two days). I believe it's the kernel > (2.4.0-test5-pre4), but it could be something else (I use the CVS > version of flwm)... These are the only two relevand things that I > have changed recently... > > So, after crashing, X tells me that it dumped a core file - that I > wanted to use - but it's nowhere... Any ideass of what I could do so > I can perhaps determine where the crash is happening and report > this? > > > This is woody, with XFree86 3.3.6-10.
core file should be wherever X started up. Depending on how you start,
this can be in a number of places. I use startx to launch my X session
(think for a few minutes -- what *really* is the function of an X
display manager other than to provide the overhead of an X session when
you explicitly don't need one). I'd recommend you do the same. You
can shut down your X display manager with:
# /etc/init.d/<foo>dm stop
...as root.
Usual candidate locations would be /, $HOME, and /root for an
[xgkw]dm-initiated session.
To save your X session output to a file, try:
$ startx -- 1>.startx.log 2>&1 &
...to launch X
You may also want to check your "ulimit -a" output to find out if you've
truncated core files. I've done this as I don't usually care to know
what's in them:
core file size (blocks) 0 # no cores
data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
file size (blocks) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) unlimited
open files 1024
pipe size (512 bytes) 8
stack size (kbytes) 8192
cpu time (seconds) unlimited
max user processes 256
virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited
Cheers.
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