How to obtain application core dump from running process

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Environment

All SUSE products

Situation

A core dump of a process needs to be captured for troubleshooting purposes as the process seems to hang - and no reason or message within the logs.

Resolution

To attach gdb to a running process run: 
$ gdb --pid=<pid>

or: 
$ gdb -p <pid>

Within gdb use following commands to create a dump, then detach from running process: 
(gdb) gcore
Saved corefile core.<pid>
(gdb) detach

 

Cause

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000019214

Additional Information

How to provide application cores to support team can be found here:
How to Use getappcore for SUSE Support

 Please also provide a supportconfig of the system when providing a core:
Supportconfig Self Service via SCC/FTP

Note: a corefile is of use only if matching debuginfo is available, means SUSE Support can only accept corefiles from binaries of SUSE products.
 

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  • Document ID:000019860
  • Creation Date: 04-Feb-2021
  • Modified Date:16-Feb-2021
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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