segfault causes system freeze

[Jörg Sommer]

steve hat am Mi 21. Nov, 06:42 (+0100) geschrieben:
> Le 20-11-2018, à 21:19:05 +0100, Jörg Sommer a écrit :
> 
> > > > Do you use systemd? Can you install the packages systemd-coredump and
> > > > mutt-dbgsym? After a crash you can run `coredumpctl info -1` and post the
> > > 
> > > There is no mutt-dbgsym in stretch, only jessie and sid. I installed
> > > systemd-coredump. Will launch the command after next freeze.
> > 
> > You have to add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list
> > 
> > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-debug/ stable-debug main non-free contrib
> 
> Thanks, I didn't know about that repo. Installed now, waiting for the
> next freeze. Can I run the command after a reboot?

Yes. Coredumpctl should capture the crash dump and you can inspect it
later, if it was successful. But maybe the crash causes the kernel can not
even write the core dump out to disk.

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