On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 02:04:08PM -0500, linda hanigan wrote:
> I have one user that is having alot of core dumps. She usually has her
> computer on all day with one screen logged on the computer she
> is sitting at and one screen logged in via telnet to the computer in
> the other room. Is there anyway to tell what is causing these core
> files. I have no known loss of data or problems with the programs
> I wrote. All the other users don't seem to have these core files. Is
> there anyway to tell the cause.
Two ideas:
- Check the hardware of the system(s) - faulty RAM comes to mind and is
more often than not the cause of excessive segfaulting. Also, have a
look at: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
This is especially likely if the core dumps happen only on her machine
and nowhere else.
- Try to find out which programs cause the core dumps.
"file core" will tell you and if you know your way around C and
programming a bit, you could also run a debugger on the core file,
e.g. "gdb /PATH/TO/PROGRAM core" and the run the 'backtrace' command
to get more information on where the crash happened.
HTH,
Thomas
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