My freeswitch installation (running under Ubuntu 12.04) has a habit of mysteriously stopping. It's not doing this in a predictable manner (eg. it's not when any particular bit of dialplan is being executed). I have a script that runs every minute to see if it's running, and if it isn't, starts it up (and sends me a notification). I'd like to be able to get to the bottom of this, but am not particularly (or at all!) experienced in running gdb. If I follow the brief instructions in the Wiki to run "gdb bin/freeswitch" I don't seem to get a working freeswitch running at all. What should I see on the command line when I issue that command? This what I currently see: ----- root@hzhmay14a /home/oev/fs-pabx/scripts # gdb --args /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -nonat GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2.1) 7.4-2012.04 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>... Reading symbols from /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch...done. (gdb) (gdb) ----- There's a mysterious (to me) command line parameter "-core" that I was wondering if it might be useful in my circumstances. I'm also prepared to do a new build (with some kind of diagnostic params) if that helps. Any tips or suggestions of things to read up on most welcome....