Xorg signal 11's spontaneously
Adam Jackson
ajackson at redhat.com
Tue Apr 25 14:11:15 UTC 2006
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Tracked down a testcase using the Xorg changelog but I get a different
> backtrace when triggering that bug so this seems to be a different
> problem. Unfortunately I also didn't get a core dump and I'm not sure
> why. I added the line DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT="unlimited" to
> /etc/sysconfig/init and changed the line in /etc/profile to "ulimit -S
> -c unlimited > /dev/null 2>&1" but after crashing X I now no longer get
> a backtrace in the Xorg.log (due to the NoTrapSignal option?) but I also
> don't see a core dump in the home directories. What else do I have to do
> to get a core dump I can feed to gdb?
IIRC it's something like 'chmod 4755 `which Xorg`' and possibly also run
the server as root, the kernel will try really really hard to not dump
core for suid binaries (rightly so).
- ajax
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