[Freeswitch-users] Getting to the bottom of a problem

[Alex Lake]

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:

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root at 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)
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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....