Jiri Moskovcak wrote: > On 03/04/2013 01:28 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Jiri Moskovcak wrote: >> >>> On 03/04/2013 01:17 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >>>> Is it possible to use abrt as intended and still be able to get core dumps >>>> from >>>> non-fedora binaries (e.g., my own code)? Right now, all core dumps are >>>> redirected to abrt. >>>> >>>> We need a way to be able to use gdb to debug core dumps. >>>> >>>> I know we can turn off abrt entirely >>>> /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern >>>> >>>> but that's not acceptable! >>>> >>>> We need a way that allows abrt to be used for fedora packages, while at the >>>> same time allowing capturing core dumps to run gdb on for non-fedora >>>> packages. >>>> >>>> If there is a way in the current abrt design, it is not sufficiently >>>> obvious/discoverable. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm pretty sure there is a way to achieve this with the current abrt >>> design, can you please describe how do you imagine this should work? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Jirka >> >> One possibility would be to simply add an dialog to abrt-gui to save the core >> dump to some user-specified location. It could offer to run gdb, but that's >> not necessary. >> >> I suppose it would also be good to have a non-gui option as well, but I don't >> know what that would be. >> > > You have two options: > > 1) in /etc/abrt/abrt-action-save-package-data.conf you can change the > option ProcessUnpackaged = no to yes > > 2) you can just set ulimit -c unlimited and abrt will create the core in > the CWD in format core.<PID> as it is by default without abrt and then > you can pass it to gdb > > Regards, > Jirka > If 2), will abrt still operate as normal on fedora package core files? We don't want to permanently disable abrt just to enable normal use of gdb on our own code. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
