[systemd-devel] coredumpctl dump, not a core dump: File format not recognized

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:38:45AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:16:05PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > systemd-229-13.fc24.x86_64
> > 
> > What does it mean, file format not recognized? How is it not a core
> > dump file? Bug?
> > 
> > 
> > [chris at f24m ~]$ sudo coredumpctl gdb 1992
> > [sudo] password for chris:
> >            PID: 1992 (gnome-terminal-)
> >            UID: 1000 (chris)
> >            GID: 1000 (chris)
> Since this is the coredump for your user, you should be able to access
> it without sudo.
> 
> >         Signal: 6 (ABRT)
> >      Timestamp: Sun 2016-09-11 21:59:35 MDT (13min ago)
> >   Command Line: /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
> >     Executable: /usr/libexec/gnome-terminal-server
> >  Control Group:
> > /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user at 1000.service/gnome-terminal-server.service
> >           Unit: user at 1000.service
> >      User Unit: user at 1000.service
> >          Slice: user-1000.slice
> >      Owner UID: 1000 (chris)
> >        Boot ID: ce148b0a6cad4f33aea5e319956a78fe
> >     Machine ID: -
> >       Hostname: f24m
> >       Coredump:
> > /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.gnome-terminal-.1000.ce148b0a6cad4f33aea5e319956a78fe.1992.1473652775000000000000
> 
> Did you turn off compression? By default coredumps use lz4
> compression. Should work either way of course.

Yeah, here it also works with Compression=no in /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.

Zbyszek