From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F051381F3 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F1E7E0961; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:39:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com (mail-pb0-f46.google.com [209.85.160.46]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2A41E094C for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id rq2so2234871pbb.19 for ; Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:39:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=PdQAA/WNp9snkg45iF5WXDffdHBXEcR6qKfcCkg7FNs=; b=Zh3tcfxBuwVxAYmUC72EHY4P2F5hD0YaqiJHbbyMrMmN034XGewqkc6lSWNFIWHCqv kz0ceEkXVxAu/aNA/65SSrBTNXWsOYz0rJVWemmOmw4SSLYS7F1ulq0PpZw1UhIr86oB Sm4z2EWatHD/ctcrW/Vk/QNcaVy2VtsQTPJc6lL55v87ABUYxyw2tm5SrKFWz19ZlbaN degXlVdl3X43FtfXIWdolPcFGezlL7RZuzvpNvhi3w3PUbtWbbMt0nB4FZ2tT+yPE5j4 74HsafhjJr6xhfJmqREihjKeOc/U9tVTnFixrQReUaolCELb8xP1xqEW8wz5Nu8oyoaw ggkA== X-Received: by 10.66.155.102 with SMTP id vv6mr35513059pab.64.1370461191475; Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.70.62.66 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Jun 2013 12:39:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51AF7EF0.6010405@gmail.com> References: <51AF7EF0.6010405@gmail.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 14:39:31 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: yjKe42IT7sv3j8UQzhkPGFB_1Is Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Crash dumps To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: c39d709f-97c9-46c7-aa62-8058b7f2dfda X-Archives-Hash: fbd04181b60165ec8a99d86f8f3b9660 On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > With some recent software updates (well, a month's worth...didn't > realize I wasn't syncing on my laptop), X now frequently dies on me. > > As it happens, I've already rebuilt all the software on the system...I > do an emerge -e @world every time there's a gcc update. To my knowledge, > there's no old cruft, no old binaries, nothing for depclean to remove or > revdep-rebuild to fix, etc. etc. > > The next step is to actually inspect the crashes and see what's > happening...but for this to be even remotely convenient, I'd like my > system to start accumulating crash dumps for my inspection. Fortunately, > I have -ggdb in CFLAGS for just such occasions, so I'm not wanting for > symbols... > > Trouble is...I don't remember how to do this. How do I enable crash > dumps, and how do I control where the dump files are dropped? You may have already seen it, but this article may lend some clues: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml