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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : gnome-shell and Xwayland sometimes leave ~/core files (not crash files)

gnome-shell and Xwayland sometimes leave ~/core files (not crash files)

This is despite:

$ grep . /proc/sys/kernel/core_*
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern:|/usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %d %P
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pipe_limit:0
/proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid:0

So really there are two problems:

1. ~/core files are created but no /var/crash/ files
2. Because they all have the same name (core_uses_pid == 0), when gnome-shell crashes as a result of an Xwayland crash, you can only get the core from one of them at most.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-25.29-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 2 15:13:52 2018
DisplayManager:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-12 (52 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20171211)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)