From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23044 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2011 18:29:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 23036 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Feb 2011 18:29:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:29:10 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1SIT9Oc022222 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:09 -0500 Received: from host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1SIT78v017117 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 -0500 Received: from host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1SIT633014862; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:29:06 +0100 Received: (from jkratoch@localhost) by host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p1SIT6Zg014861; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:29:06 +0100 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:29:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: santoshp Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: debug core file of size 50GB using GDB in RHEL5 Message-ID: <20110228182905.GA14500@host1.dyn.jankratochvil.net> References: <31029843.post@talk.nabble.com> <31029983.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31029983.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:09:10 +0100, santoshp wrote: > Number of program headers: 0 > Size of section headers: 0 (bytes) > Number of section headers: 0 > Section header string table index: 0 >From this core file no tool can extract anything, the core file is invalid. It is rather questionable how the core file was generated. Was it a normal kernel dump (->kernel bug, unrelated to gdb) or by the gdb gcore command? Thanks, Jan