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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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Getting better debug when Linux crashes in a C programme

We have an embedded version of Linux kernel running on a MIPs core. The Programme we have written runs a particular test suite. During one of the stress tests (runs for about 12hrs) we get a seg fault. This in turn generates a core…
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Omitting core dumps via C a #define (or other in code/compile time solutions)?

I understand that the operating system generates a core dump sometimes when a signal is sent (usually upon a crash). Is there a way to tell the operating system from inside C/C++ via a #define or compiler flag that no, or a somehow specifically…
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Disable application crash dumps on Windows 7

Silly question: How do I prevent Windows 7 from storing the memory dump of a crashed application? I'm experimenting with the stack allocation in a C++ application, so the toy program crashes a lot. And for each crash, Windows dumps the memory to the…
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Crash dump - resolve unmanaged code crash in a .NET application using WinDbg

I'm trying to discover the WinDbg tool to analyze a crash dump we have on our production server. When I run !analyze -v, I get: 0:000> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * …
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Why Slack is causing Windows 10 BSOD?

I have experienced BSOD every time I have resumed laptop from sleep. I have analyzed the minidump using WinDbg and the causing processes is always Slack.exe. I have googled a bit I have found…
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Is it possible to create mini dump file programmatically without a crash?

Assume a remote site gets a rare error but doesn't crash the application. I would still like to create a mini dump file when this happens so I have some information to work with, mainly the call stack. Pseudo code is following: try { …
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Windows does not produce full crash dumps even though registry is set correctly

My client are experiencing software crashes with a VB6 program I wrote. I had set up the registry to produce full crash dumps, and I saw it working correctly with other programs that crashed on their system, but for some reason, for my program, it…
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Native crash in unknown unknown

I have an app which is entirely written in Java - no native code whatsoever - and I've twice had a crash report on the Developer Console "Native crash in unknown unknown". I have no idea where to start locating the source of the problem. Searching…
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installing debugging tools to analyse minidumps on windows 7

I've been trying to install the 'Debugging Tools', in order to try to analyse the dump file a server-crash (Windows Server 2008 R2). I used to do this in the past, but I cannot find how to install / locate the Debugging Tools for Windows 7. I've…
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"Symbols can not be loaded" when trying to read dump

I have an application that sometimes causes a BSOD on a Win XP machine. Trying to find out more, I loaded up the resulting *.dmp file (from C:\Windows\Minidump), but get this message when in much of the readout when doing…
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Win2008 R2 WER ( error reporting ) LocalDumps blocked by what?

I Just want to recover crash dumps of my own 32bit applications. I tried the following: I followed the steps at MSDN "Collecting User-Mode Dumps": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb787181%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Somewhere on the…
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Determine if process dump was generated on x64 or x86 machine

If I have a process dump file, is there anyway of knowing if the dump was generated on a x64 machine or x86 machines?
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Diagnosing CLR errors in Windows Event Viewer

We have an .NET desktop application that crashed in production. How do we diagnose the error? I'd like to know the type of exception that occurred, the error message, and the stack trace. Because the exception wasn't handled by our code, we received…
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How to generate good crash log report for Qt application in windows

I got such crash log in one of Qt application, Any idea how qt application is implemented to get such good crash report ? //===================================================== Crash Time: Fri Aug 20 15:05:51 2010 Tool Version: 1.6…
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understanding stack trace of a segmentation fault

I am doing an snprintf and getting a seg fault. when I loaded the core file on gdb like this: gdb my_executable core ; and did bt to get the backtrace, I got following: Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x88207fc2 in memcpy…
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