Re: ppc Linux-2.4.2 not generating core dump for SIGSEGV and abort()

Ronald Jeninga
2001-07-18T13:29:13Z

Hi,

you should probably check your limits. Try

ulimit -a

you'll probably have a coresize of 0 (SuSE's default I believe)
change it with

ulimit -c unlimited

(or some number, see also man ulimit).

This might help.

Ronald

mdaljeet@in.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am using Suse-linux-7.1 with default linux -ppc kernel on apple G4
> machine.
> SIGSEGV is never generating the core dump. though this signal is being
> caught by the user process.
> I also tried with "abort" call which should generate the core dump, but
> this is also not working. The same program with abort call is generating
> core dumps on other linux/unix platforms.
> Can anybody tell me where is the problem?
>
> Daljeet.
>
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