[gentoo-amd64] Re: FVWM taskbar segfault on ~amd64

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

felix@crowfix.com posted 20080229170308.GA6121@crowfix.com, excerpted
below, on  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:03:08 -0800:

> Now I feel like some dinosaurish fool here.  I cannot get a core dump. 
> ulimit -c 90000 or -c 1 or -c unlimited tells me
> 
> -bash: ulimit: core file size: cannot modify limit: Operation not
> permitted
> 
> Setting ulimit in /etc/profile doesn't give me a core dump, in $HOME or
> /tmp or anywhere that I can find.  Bash's help ulimit says nothing about
> this.  I can't find anything in /etc/sysctl.conf which disables core
> files.  Changing /etc/security/limits.conf didn't help.

You probably checked it but if you mentioned it I missed it.  Does your
kernel include corefile functionality?  I have that option turned
entirely off, here.  If likewise there, that might explain not being
able to turn it on from user mode.

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