Basically, you use a debugger. Since you did not specify an OS I'll assume you have
gdb. You must have compiled the file
in order for symbols to be available. If you are analyzing a core dump of somebody else's code you are in trouble.
The core dump file is called core
This will show you a backtrace (stack dump) of the call tree that lead to the crash.
You will have to find using the stack dump where in the code (not in a C library) the crash occurred. In other words the last line of the program's code that actually led to the crash.
Hi folks,
I'm hoping someone would be charitable enough to give me a quick explanation of adb usage for analyzing core files...or point me in the right direction. A search here revealed scant results and web searches are providing me with ambiguous information.
Running Solaris.
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Hi,
I just wanted to know is there any tool avaliable for core analysis on hp-ux. I have heard about q4 utility. But I think it is used for analysis of system crash dump and not for core dump produced by a user process.
gdb doesn't give much information unless the binary is debug-build.
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Hello,
I'm new to the group and this is my first post. I'm hoping someone can help me out. I have a core dump that I need to analyze from a Unix box and I've never done this sort of thing before. I was told to run a pmap and pstack on the core file which provided two different output files. ... (3 Replies)
How can we analyze a core file and determine why it was generated on a solaris system?
I know file core filename will tell us what program generated the file. But, what to do next to get more details?
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We have just enabled core dump on our RHEL5.7 OS. the java process is terminating very often so we enable core dump to analysis the issue and find below in core dump file.
Core was generated by `/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_06//bin/java -server -Xms1536m -Xmx1536m -Xmn576m -XX:+Aggre'.
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dear all,
i have p770 aix6.1
last week, the host reboot suddenly with dump. but i don't know how to analyze the dump.
I posted kdb details in the attachment.
please anybody help me.
#>kdb vmcore.0 /unix
vmcore.0 mapped from @ 700000000000000 to @ 7000001c72c0908
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
gcore
GCORE(1) GNU Development Tools GCORE(1)NAME
gcore - Generate a core file of a running program
SYNOPSIS
gcore [-o filename] pid
DESCRIPTION
Generate a core dump of a running program with process ID pid. Produced file is equivalent to a kernel produced core file as if the
process crashed (and if "ulimit -c" were used to set up an appropriate core dump limit). Unlike after a crash, after gcore the program
remains running without any change.
OPTIONS -o filename
The optional argument filename specifies the file name where to put the core dump. If not specified, the file name defaults to
core.pid, where pid is the running program process ID.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for GDB is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the "info" and "gdb" programs and GDB's Texinfo documentation are
properly installed at your site, the command
info gdb
should give you access to the complete manual.
Using GDB: A Guide to the GNU Source-Level Debugger, Richard M. Stallman and Roland H. Pesch, July 1991.
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developing GNU and promoting software freedom."
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