[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH dying with no core file

[Andrew Cassidy]

Hi, what have you done with the core file?

On 31 July 2012 21:16, Adam Johnston <ajohnston at blimessaging.com> wrote:

> That did it. My sporadic crash happened again and, sure enough, there's a
> core file.
>
> Thanks again,
> Adam Johnston
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Stefan Knoblich <stkn at freeswitch.org>wrote:
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>> On 07/27/12 21:34, Adam Johnston wrote:
>> > I use FreeSWITCH exclusively for high-volume fax, both sending and
>> receiving, and I've been running into a sporadic issue where the FreeSWITCH
>> process will die with nothing in the logs to
>> > indicate an issue and no core file anywhere on the system. I'm setting
>> "ulimit -c unlimited" in my init script, so I would expect to see a core
>> file. Version: FreeSWITCH Version
>> > 1.2.0-rc2+git~20120713T162602Z~0afd7318bd+unclean~20120713T182401Z
>>
>> You need to set /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable to a non-zero value (see man 5
>> proc), to enable core dumping for processes
>> that switch their UID on startup (such as freeswitch with -u option).
>>
>> By default, the freeswitch process will try to put the core file into the
>> CWD (current work directory),
>> so make sure the UID it is running as can write there (or "cd" into a
>> different directory before starting it).
>> You might also want to check out man 5 core, for all the other options
>> (e.g. piping core dumps into a custom handler, with core_pattern).
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