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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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Is it possible to specify where JVM's crash dumps go?

We have a desktop application using JNI that occasionally causes the JVM to crash. Luckily the JVM produces a hs_err_pidXXXX.log file, which is quite useful in debugging such errors. However, it always seems to go to the current working directory,…
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type of process dump when its generated from task manager

Starting from Windows Vista, now one can generate a process dump right from task manager. Typically I generate a process dump either by using Adplus or right from Windbg. If I use one of these option, I have to provide some switches with my command…
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How can I reproduce EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW error in Java

How can I reproduce EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW error in Java. PS: I am not talking of StackOverflowError Error in Java which gracefully shuts the JVM. I am talking of EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW in error.log which cause JVM to crash.
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Application.ThreadException vs AppDomain.UnhandledException

First some background: I have a multi-threaded WinForms application that is doing interop to native dlls. This application crashes sometimes with unhandled exception and we are trying to investigate why does it happen. In order to facilitate it, I…
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How do tools like Crashlytics work? How do they get/make a crash log?

I want understand how tools like Crashlytics works. How do they get the crash log stack trace just minutes after a system crash? Do they access some kind of crash dump that is generated after crash arrived? In Objective-C we had main.m to maybe…
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Crash dump - WinDbg - force PDB files to match doesn't work?

I have a crash dump for a customer's application built with a very old version of our dll (release build, don't have original symbols) that I've been analyzing in WinDbg. In order to get more information, I rebuilt the dll in release mode, with…
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Linux kernel module crash debug: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

I have a kernel module for splitting incoming rtp packets and merging rtp outgoing packets. The program crashes once in 2/3 days. If would be very convenient for me if its possible to find the exact line where the module crashes. I have given the…
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Best way to have crash dumps generated when processes crash?

In Windows environments (XP and Win 7): What is the best way to automatically have a crash dump generated when processes crash on the system? Can an installer (MSI) package do this?
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Analyzing segmentation fault without core file

Suppose my binaries are running in a customer site where I cannot enable core dump generation using ulimit -c . How do engineers debug the segmentation faults in such real world scenarios? Is there any other method of debugging or identifying…
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Crashlytics Swift: Get fatalError() message to the crashlog

I have a number of fatalError("Descriptive Error") lines in my app. I'd like to find which line has actually triggered the error. However, I can't get such an information with Crashlytics. Here's what I got: #0. Crashed: com.apple.main-thread 0 …
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Error 0x80004005 when reading dump file with WinDbg

I'm working on a 32 bit application which sometimes causes a certain 64 bit Windows 7 machine to crash. I've generated a dump file of the crash using the ProcDump utility from Sysinternals. (I used the command "procdump -ma -h MyApplication.exe".)…
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How to identify problem when program crashes without showing error?

Please let me know what steps I need to follow when my application crashes and closes showing the dialog containing "Don't send" and "Send error report" buttons. What can I possibly do other than looking at the event viewer to solve this? Thanks
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How can I know the CLR version of a crash dump?

I have a minidump crashed from a .NET application. Is there any way to know the CLR version (e.g. version of mscorwks.dll) of the fault machine (which generates the crash dump) using either Windbg or some other tool?
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How can I check what time was the process core dump taken on windows?

I have a full memory dump of a process taken through Task Manager. Can I determine what the time was on the machine at that moment?
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How to collect native stacktrace without a scary READ_LOGS permission up front?

I have an application which is mostly native code written in C: Simon Tatham's Puzzles. When I catch a crash (with a signal handler), a Java backtrace will only tell me the vague area of the problem: W System.err: at…
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