Description of problem: After an attempt to use gnome-shell I found "Process /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)" and a core file. Unfortunately I cannot tell much more as gdb stops with "corefile is truncated: expected core file size >= 37392384, found: 20779008". No idea why such truncation occured. There is close to 1 GB of a free disk space on a relevant file system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-settings-daemon-2.91.9-6.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: cannot tell
The kernel is responsible for dumping the core file, not gnome-settings-daemon itself.
Is there a limit set for the core file size somewhere?
(In reply to comment #2) > Is there a limit set for the core file size somewhere? No. On the system in question the core size is set to "unlimited".
Is abrt capturing the core file?
(In reply to comment #4) > Is abrt capturing the core file? Yes, this core file was captured by abrt. I have another core from gnome-settings-daemon produced few days later. If I look at it I see: Core was generated by `/usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. and again: BFD: Warning: /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1298347914-1715/coredump is truncated: expected core file size >= 45613056, found: 798720. AFAICS core files produces by other things are not truncated.
This seems fairly similar to 759213 and there is a lot more information in that bug. Duping for now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 759213 ***