Questions tagged [crash-dumps]

A core dump or crash dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally

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What would cause ANY .NET application to crash immediately... except a project I create and Debug inside Visual Studio?

My software recently got deployed to a customer who said that the application was crashing immediately after it started. After some initial debugging, the customer provided me remote access to one of the computers which was unable to run the…
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Tool for debugging hangs in java application

I've got a java application that half the time just hangs, and the other half the JVM crashes. Is there a tool I can use to see what's going on that makes it hang and/or crash? I'm using CentOS 5.6
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Google Chrome - Crash Dump Location

I'm trying to debug a page in a web app that keeps crashing Chrome ("Aw, snap!" error). I've enabled/disabled automatic crash reporting, tried logging with google-chrome --enable-logging --v=1, (as well as various levels of verbosity), and all I…
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How do I take a good crash dump for .NET?

I have captured a crash dump of my 32 bit .NET application running on a 64 bit Windows operating system. During the analysis somebody found out that I have a 64 bit dump and told me that it is not possible to analyze this dump due to wrong…
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Debugging dump of 32-bit process captured on 64-bit machine

I recently received a 64-bit crash dump from a customer. Our processes are all 32-bit, but the customer's machine is running x64 Server 2008. Visual Studio (both 2008 and 2010 Express) is telling me that I have to use the 64-bit version of…
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Including custom data into iOS crash dumps

Hello Stack Overflow ! A simple question for you : is it possible to embed custom error data into automatically generated iOS crash dumps I get from my users when my app crashed on their device ? For example : My SQlite database won't operate for…
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Analyzing Crash dumps in Visual Studio

I have a *.dmp (dump) file of my crashed application. Now, I want to analyze the crashed process on a different machine. That is, the app crashed on one machine, and I have Visual Studio on other machine. Now, what do I need to be able to see stack…
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Decoding the parameters of a thrown C++ exception (0xE06D7363)

I've got a crash-dump file (my 32-bit windows application has crashed on a customer computer). Exception code is 0xE06D7363. So, I found this article from MSDN blogs about decoding the exception params. But a recipe from the article doesn't work for…
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how to generate thread dump java on out of memory error

does java 6 generate thread dump in addition to heap dump (java_pid14941.hprof) this is what happened to one of my applications. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Dumping heap to java_pid14941.hprof ... I did find…
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Core dump in Linux

I want to create a core dump whenever my process crashes. Currently I am following this approach: Build a special "debug" version of the program using "-g" of gcc/g++. Execute "ulimit -c unlimited" Now we get the core dump whenever the program…
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Cross-platform crash handler

I'm looking for a cross-platform crash handler. Google Breakpad looks promising, but it is sorely lacking any documentation, and requires a reasonable amount of fiddling to actually get going. What is a better alternative? All I need is the ability…
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Asp.net application slow but CPU is at 40% max

I have a strange situation on a production server. Connection for asp.net get queued but the CPU is only at 40%. Also the database runs fine at 30% CPU. Some more history as requested in the comments: In the peak hours the sites gets around 20,000…
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What actions do I need to take to get a crash dump in ALL error scenarios?

We're on Windows and we want to get a crash dump (possibly using MiniDumpWriteDump) for all scenarios where our application exit's unexpectedly. So far we have identified, and set up, the following: SetUnhandledExceptionFilter for unhandled…
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Create a dump file for an application whenever it crashes

I am trying to create a dump file for my application whenever it crashes. I am currently using procdump.exe with -e flag in order to do it, so if I have unhandled exception in my application procdump creates a dump file for me. I thought that I was…
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How to I resolve GetFrameContext failed in Windbg

I'm debugging a .NET 4.0 web application using a full crash dump and Windbg. I seem able to get all the versions of everything to match up however when I try to get the managed stack trace of all the thread I get OS Thread Id: 0x7cd4 (13) Child SP…
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