Words by Timo Sirainen [Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:41:39PM -0500]:
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:28 -0800, Mark Hedges wrote:
b) Kernel doesn't want to write the core to /tmp/core or before changing that it didn't want to write it to user's home directory.
[root@anubis etc]# grep -i core /boot/config-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y # Core Netfilter Configuration CONFIG_MLX4_CORE=m CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_I2C_OCORES is not set # CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE is not set CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
Is that informative?
core dumping functionality is there, but I guess the problem has more to do with directory owner/permissions where it's writing the core file.
echo /tmp/core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
I guess /tmp should be writeable :)
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