topic examine a core dump in Operating System - HP-UX

examine a core dump

Hendrik Barnard — Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:33:36 GMT

Hi/

How do you examine a core file on a HP-UX 10.20 system.

regards

Hendrik

Re: examine a core dump

Randy Mather — Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:29:10 GMT

Re: examine a core dump

Andy Bennett_4 — Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:10:49 GMT

If you meant a "core" file rather than something in /var/adm/crash directory,
use "file core" to find out which executable created the core file and then get
either DDE, WDB or gdb to load it and the executable at the same time. Analysis
then goes pretty much along the lines of regular debugging except that you
cannot advance the execution.

See the http://devresource.hp.com Document library for the PA-RISC assembly
language and runtime architecture manuals which are very useful if you end up
wading through assembly language.

Re: examine a core dump

Steve White_8 — Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:00:14 GMT

To examine a core file you can use vi or strings. strings filename |more