Hi! I have an application that in very seldom cases causes core dumps on about a dotzen machines that are located on customers sites.
What I have is application.core, but I cannot read this: # gdb -c /home/me/application.core /home/me/application GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd4.3"...(no debugging symbols found) "/home/me/application.core " is not a core dump: File format not recognized (gdb) quit # file /home/me/application.core /home/me/application.core: data Anybody got an idea how this can happen? What can I do with the file I have? This happened more than once. Yet, all the .core files I was able to get were unusable to me. However, when I initiate a .core file by exiting the application intentionally with a signal, the resulting core files are OK. Thanks in advance! Regards, T.
