Comment 34 for bug 746981

Sorry Richard, I should have explained myself in greater detail. A core file is a file that contains a memory dump of a program at a time it crashed. It is very useful for debugging the crash.

On some systems (production systems in general), generating core files is disabled, as they can potentially take a lot of disk space. You can check whether your system would generate core files by running "ulimit -c" in a terminal. If the output says "0", generating core files is disabled. To enable core files, run "ulimit -c unlimited".

Then, from the same terminal, restart the sssd service and run the case that was crashing sssd for you. You should see a file named "core.XXXXX" where XXXXX is sssd process ID in the root directory "/" as this is where sssd sets its working directory to.

If the core file does not get created after the crash, the file /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern tell where the core files gets created by default.