Description of problem: I'm consistently getting core files of length 0: Feb 24 08:46:22 tlondon kernel: compiz[2007]: segfault at 39e502e820 ip 00000039e502e820 sp 00007fff1f035c78 error 14 in libSM.so.6.0.0[39e6400000+7000] Feb 24 08:46:22 tlondon abrt[2486]: saved core dump of pid 2007 (/usr/bin/compiz) to /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1267029982-2007.new/coredump (0 bytes) Feb 24 08:46:22 tlondon abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-1267029982-2007' creation detected Feb 24 08:46:22 tlondon abrt[2486]: saved core dump of pid 2007 to /home/tbl/core.2007 (0 bytes) Feb 24 08:46:22 tlondon abrtd: New crash /var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1267029982-2007, processing Feb 24 08:46:22 tlondon abrtd: Registered Action plugin 'RunApp' Feb 24 08:46:22 tlondon abrtd: RunApp('/var/cache/abrt/ccpp-1267029982-2007','test x"`cat component`" = x"xorg-x11-server-Xorg" && cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log .') Feb 24 08:46:31 tlondon ntpd[1515]: synchronized to 207.171.30.106, stratum 1 Feb 24 08:46:30 tlondon ntpd[1515]: time reset -1.050005 s Feb 24 08:46:30 tlondon ntpd[1515]: kernel time sync status change 2001 Feb 24 08:46:53 tlondon kernel: DMA-API: debugging out of memory - disabling Feb 24 08:49:12 tlondon abrtd: Getting crash infos... Feb 24 08:49:15 tlondon abrtd: Getting crash infos... I'm running kernel-2.6.33-0.48.rc8.git1.fc14.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abrt-addon-ccpp-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-gui-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-plugin-logger-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-addon-python-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-addon-kerneloops-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-plugin-runapp-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-libs-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-plugin-bugzilla-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 abrt-desktop-1.0.8-1.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Every "user" core dump. Steps to Reproduce: 1. run app that produces core dump 2. examine core.XXXX file: 0 length.... 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This has been fixed recently. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 567331 ***