Re: debug core file of size 50GB using GDB in RHEL5

Jan Kratochvil
2011-02-28T18:29:20Z

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