On 2015-10-20 07:55, Nick Holland wrote:
But still -- remember what developers ask for most often: a good
problem
report: panic message, trace and ps output, a dmesg and info about how
to repeat the problem. If people would reliably provide that, they'd
make developers very very happy.
Not being a coder, I hesitate to say this, but I don't recall anyone
being asked for a system core dump by a developer. (my statement is
accurate: I don't recall. The conclusions you draw may or may not be
:)
One of the nice things about having a successful savecore(8) is that
the captured dump can provide all the critical bits. So dumps are very
useful to have. Tools like ps(1) and dmesg(8) have -N and -M options
for
post-mortem analysis.
The crash(8) man page has been extremely helpful to me over the years.
And, there's
also very helpful guidance in FAQ 2.4.
I've never sent anyone a crash dump, but I've certainly pulled info
from them to make a dish of copypasta.
