Bug 289483

Summary:	'How to get meaningful backtraces in Gentoo' should mention how to enable dumps of apps running as root
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Martin Mokrejš <mmokrejs>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	QA	CC:	jstein, sam
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Mokrejš 2009-10-17 12:11:25 UTC

The document is not complete. Please include necessary bits from Bug #256036#c6 and Bug #256036#c7.



BTW, I have no modifications to /etc/security/limits.conf nor /etc/limits.conf and am getting core dumps. Wonder how I enabled them.

# grep limit /etc/profile*race 
# grep ulimit ~/.bash_profile 
#

# gzip -dc /proc/config.gz | grep CORE
CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
CONFIG_MCORE2=y
CONFIG_CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS=y
# CONFIG_TIFM_CORE is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_I2C_OCORES is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set
CONFIG_SENSORS_CORETEMP=m
# CONFIG_MFD_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_TWL4030_CORE is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_CORE is not set
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
#