[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11268) bug in freeciv-cvs-Nov-29.tar.bz2 [freeciv #10526]

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11268 >

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:18:29PM -0800, Luis Felipe wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11268 >
> 
> hi again
> 
> salsa@handy salsa $ killall -SEGV civserver
> salsa@handy salsa $ gdb civserver core
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> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host
> libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
> 
> /home/salsa/core: No such file or directory.

the core should be in the directory where you started the civserver.

you also might need to make sure that you're allowing cores to be created.
try:

% ulimit -c unlimited

-mike