Reporting errors and creating core files for debugging

Description:

This article gives a brief overview on how to create core files for bug reporting.

Make sure core files are created:

Before running your aspherix job run

ulimit -c unlimited

to ensure core files are created.

Find out where core files are stored:

To find out where core files are stored, query the system control tool:

sysctl kernel.core_pattern

On a standard Ubuntu system, core files are created using the program apport which will store them in

/var/crash/

They will have the file extension .crash.