[Bug: 21.5-b28] gnus chokes, XEmacs dies
Giacomo Boffi writes:
Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
> > using XEmacs under X, when i try to read a particular post Xemacs dies
> > abruptly --- at the moment i have no core dump, i think i can provide
> > one if necessary
>
> I can't replicate (Mac OS X under X), so I think you should send us a
> backtrace (no core dump, please! just the trace :-).
in the past, i used to have core fils all around my disk, then came
ulimit, and now
% ulimit -c 3000000
bash: ulimit: core file size: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
%
please, can someone come up with a recipe to enable core dumps on
linux debian unstable?
It's probably more convenient to just run xemacs under the debugger,
since you have a recipe for reproducing the problem.
You need to start a new shell without the limit. I'm not sure how to
do that offhand; an ordinary subshell seems to inherit the limit. (su
(to root) will allow you to raise it, but only in the su'd shell).
Maybe you need to log in again.
Then instead of using ulimit -c 0, use ulimit -S -c 0 in your .bashrc
or .profile. That allows you to do ulimit -c hard to raise the core
limit to the hard limit (usually unlimited under Linux) later, while
limiting things now.
Note that a core size of 3MB is almost certainly insufficient.
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