[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH dying with no core file

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Andrew Cassidy <andrew at cassidywebservices.co.uk> wrote:

> I'll also give that a go as I have similar random restarts.
> 
> On 27 July 2012 21:59, 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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Thanks much for that tip -- I had never heard of that parameter, maybe
it should be in the wiki in the section about getting a backtrace.

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