Subj : Re: Javascript TW2
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jan 12 2018 06:41 pm

  Re: Re: Javascript TW2
  By: Dumas Walker to Digital Man on Fri Jan 12 2018 04:02 pm

 >
 >  > The instructions for debugging crashes (e.g. segfaults) on *nix are here:
 >  > http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:gdb
 >
 >  > It'd be helpful if you had a core file from the crash.
 >
 > OK, so after Al's encouragement, I decided to try a different approach.  I
 > set up a second sbbs directory, /opt/sbbs, and did a brand new install
 > there. Afterwards, I ran my script that exports paths under /opt/sbbs and
 > starts sbbs.
 >  It came up without any apparent issue.
 >
 > Then I created a symlink under the /opt/bbs "test" environment back to the
 > /sbbs/data directory in "production."  I did the same thing with the ctrl
 > directory.  When I refired /opt/sbbs/exec/sbbs, I get a segfault again...
 > 26991.
 >
 > From what I can tell, I have to compile a debug version in order to get core
 > files to generate?

No, release (non-debug) builds will generate core files too if your system will
allow it.

 > Or will changing the limits.conf settings cause the core
 > file to be created without using a debug version?

A non-debug core file can still be very useful and yes, there a various ways to
instruct your system to allow core files to be created. Detailed here:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:gdb#core_file

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