I got burned by this, too. It is compounded by the fact that "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" is written to stderr, which actually just means that the dump has been collected and passed on to apport.
Since it is apport that is parsing the ulimit value and deciding whether or not to write out the core file, luca's suggestion seems appropriate and would have been helpful to me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1254804 Title: [wishlist] Apport doesn't log when a core dump is ignored because of the limit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1254804/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
