On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > With some recent software updates (well, a month's worth...didn't > realize I wasn't syncing on my laptop), X now frequently dies on me. > > As it happens, I've already rebuilt all the software on the system...I > do an emerge -e @world every time there's a gcc update. To my knowledge, > there's no old cruft, no old binaries, nothing for depclean to remove or > revdep-rebuild to fix, etc. etc. > > The next step is to actually inspect the crashes and see what's > happening...but for this to be even remotely convenient, I'd like my > system to start accumulating crash dumps for my inspection. Fortunately, > I have -ggdb in CFLAGS for just such occasions, so I'm not wanting for > symbols... > > Trouble is...I don't remember how to do this. How do I enable crash > dumps, and how do I control where the dump files are dropped?
You may have already seen it, but this article may lend some clues: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
