reading core file

[Jeff Fry]

Looking for a tool (freeware) to read core dump files on HPUX (version 11.00). Any suggestions?

[Sandip Ghosh]

You can use string to see the contents of the file.

Sandip

[S.K. Chan]

It has been extensively discussed before.. check this thread ..

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xb6bd0bce6f33d6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff

The simplest way to know what is in the file is to do a strings and genrally the error pops up at the start itself . However there was a tool Q4 to analyse crash dumps which is also easier to use.


Manoj Srivastava

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

just do a file core
to figure out the process responsible.

After that what core to figure out shared libs etc.

More than that more or less requires source code of the app that dumped.

http://www.hp.com/go/developers
or
http://www.hp.com/go/developer
for the WDB (Gnu debugger)

Later,
Bill

[Jeff Fry]

Thanks,
Good info and got me on the right track. I used file & strings already but looking for other options which you hook me up with.