> > What I have is application.core, but I cannot read this: > > "/home/me/application.core " is not a core dump: File format not recognized > > (gdb) quit > > did you check the core size to see if it didn't get truncated > because of some ulimit ?
Yes, the core file is definitely a lot smaller than what ulimit -c was set to. Furthermore the dump should have a header so that 'file' could determine the file type. Which is not the case.

