Subject: Re: Segmentation fault, "*.core" files found
To: NetBSD/i386 Discussion List <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/10/2001 00:29:13
Okay, I tried /etc/daily, but had to "chmod u+x" it first 
since "ls -l /etc | grep daily" reported it non-x...

A lot of stuff scrolled by too fast to read. So instead I 
just did...

find / -name "*.core" | more 

...and found these...

/home/aplonis/kworldwatch.core
/root/kworldwatch.core
/root/knotes.core
/var/spool/mqueue/sendmail.core
/kioslave.core
/XF86_SVGA.core
/login.core

...I had some probs with KDE a while back, fixed now, I 
think. So I checked the dates with, like...

ls -l /root | grep core

...and so on. Most were old, but not this one...

/var/spool/mqueue/ssendmail.core

...which is strange since I don't call or use sendmail
to my knowledge (which is scantily newbie-ish).

What can I do with this info???

Thanks,

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI USA

---

To paraphrase Hitler... 
"Who remembers the Amalekites?"
> [ On Monday, July 9, 2001 at 21:55:25 (+0000), oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote: ]
> > Subject: Segmentation fault - core dumped - more info
> >
> > Segmentation fault - core dumped
> > 
> > ...repeated four times did not go away
> > at the next boot. As far as I got by 
> > myself (I'm a newbie).
> 
> Time to look around for *.core files....  /etc/daily will do this for
> you if it's run every night and if "find_core=yes" is set in
> /etc/daily.conf (or by implication in /etc/defaults/daily.conf).
> 
> You can do it manually too (this more or less cut & pasted from /etc/daily):
> 
>   find / \( ! -fstype local -o -fstype rdonly -o -fstype fdesc \
> 	-o -fstype kernfs -o -fstype procfs \) -a -prune -o \
> 	-name 'lost+found' -a -prune -o \
> 	\( -name '*.core' -o -name 'core' \) -a -type f -a -print | \
>   egrep -e '\.core$|/core$'
> 
> Let us know what you find (and what release of NetBSD you're running).
> 
> -- 
> 							Greg A. Woods
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