Nick,
Thanks for the response.

I think it was a gdb versioning issue.  The server was running a version (I
assume newer than my development box).

I put some pressure on the powers that be and I got gdb installed on the
high-traffic box (although I didn't attach gdb to the httpd process... just
used it to read the core dumps).  Using the same version of gdb to read the
trace seemed to fix whatever file format difference existed.

I found the source of the SegFaults and am on my way to fixing them.

Thanks again,
Dave


On 4/23/07, Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:19:40 -0500
"David Wortham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>    My problem is that I am getting core dumps (using the
> CoreDumpDirectory directive of the MPM module) but I can't read them
> with my version of gdb (I am running 6.3-5).  My specific error is:
> "/home/.../core.pid" is not a core dump: File format not recognized

What does "file core.whatever" tell you?  What you're saying sounds
a little implausible.

>    Any suggestions?

See the fatal exception stuff at
http://people.apache.org/~trawick/
for alternative diagnostic tools.


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