On Mon, Oct 06, 2025 at 05:11:19PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> How can I get extra info about a segfault every 20 minutes or so in a largely
> idle xenodm on one old amd64 machine. Apparently it's been happening for 
> quite a
> while on Current.

Now would indeed be a good time to report it. ;)

> I tried starting with debug 10 and DisplayManager.debugLevel: 1 but I still 
> only get
> 
> Segmentation fault at address 0x20
> 
> Caught Signal 11 (segmentation Fault). Server aborting
> 
> It does say server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 2816

2816 is 11 * 256, which gives no more information the SIGSEGV / Signal
11 mentioned above.

Try to use sysctl kern.nosuidcoredump=2 # or 3

and then look for a core file in /var/crash which you can analyze with
egdb (pkg_add gdb, egdb program program.core, "bt").  The report
ought to be sent to bugs@ using sendbug(1).

-- 
jca

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