Thanks for the tips, i guess running the program in gdb is a great solution for this, so this alone will progress this thread to "resolved".
Also sorry for the poor quality of the initial post.
I frankly don't remember what was the issue here. Still, I'd like to finally resolve this thread. This comes nearly 16 years late - again, sorry!
Also bumping this old issue is really not that helpful - let's just get over this...
Other tips for resolving such a problem can be found in the following man-pages:
Code:
man core
man 7 signal
Those will provide help for which conditions can lead to missing core files and system capabilities that invoke a core file to be created.
In a nutshell, the following issues could have provoked that behavior:
- disk full or disk quota limits exceeded
- file permissions on the executable, core file directory write permissions or already existing core file with read-only permissions
- filesystem mount issues with "ro" (read-only)
- more than one hardlink on an already existing corefile
- other configuration issues, e.g. kernel core dump capability missing or somehow strange settings (piping corefile to other processes)