[asterisk-users] How to create a coredump for Asterisk

[Thorolf Godawa]

Hi everybody,

sometimes we have an Asterisk-crash, but no clue why this is happening,
so I'm trying to make a coredump to analyse it.

I compiled Asterisk 1.4.20.1 on CentOS 5.4 i386 with "DEBUG_THREADS" and
"DONT_OPTIMIZE", then I start it with:
 # /bin/bash /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk

This should do an "ulimit -c unlimited", but I entered it in the
terminal again.

A
 # ps -ef | grep asterisk
tells me that Asterisk is running as root and with the g-option for
writing a coredump:

root     21622     1  0 20:15 pts/0    00:00:00 /bin/bash
/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk
root     21627 21622  1 20:15 pts/0    00:00:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk -f
-vvvg -c

In the asterisk-start-script, the coredump-dir is configured as:
 DUMPDROP=/tmp

Unfortunately, if I kill all asterisk-processes with "kill -9 ...", a
coredump never is writen to "/tmp", I also looked in other dirs.

Any idea what is going wrong here?


Some links I found, but they do not help me:
http://www.asterisk.org/doxygen/trunk/AstDebug.html
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+debugging
http://man.sourcentral.org/centos5/5+core
http://de.w3support.net/index.php?db=so&id=17965


Thanks a lot,
-- 

Chau y hasta luego,

Thorolf