RedHat 6.0 does core dump, if Gnome/Enlightment is used as desktop. If I use AfterStep or anyother desktop windows manager, core file is not created. On each reboot Gnome/Enlightment creates a *core* file under /root, though system boots and works OK. It is annoying to see *core* in /root on each rebot of RedHat 6.0
Try to use gdb to determine which program is causing the core dump. I can not get gnome/enlightenment to fail. ------- Email Received From "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi> 05/18/99 15:23 -------
OK here is the GDB report of the core file. Drivemount_applet in Gnome does a core dump. --GDB/DDD output--- Core was generated by 'drivemount_applet --activate-goad-server drivemount-applet-factory' Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted #0 0x40416111 in ?? () ---- Removing drivemount option from Factory installed settings stops producing core dump.
I am able to recreate this in the lab. ------- Email Received From "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi> 05/20/99 06:13 -------
This will be fixed soon in a gnome-core and gtk+ update. It has to do with how GNOME/GTK+ programs handled the case where they could no longer talk to the X server. For debugging purposes a core file was created. This behaviour will be changed.