MATE Core Dumps

[tuaris]

This has always been an issue on FreeBSD for as long as I can remember (years, decades). Programs are always core dumping. They tend to accumulate over time and I just delete them and usually don't give it a second thought. It doesn't always effect what I am doing but it happens several times per day. Doesn't matter what machine I'm on. The only common thing among them all is MATE desktop (no specific version or BSD version).

The system log (/var/log/message) is also littered with core dump lines:

Feb 23 22:08:44 workstation kernel: pid 16725 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:08:44 workstation kernel: pid 16724 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:08:50 workstation kernel: pid 16766 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:08:56 workstation kernel: pid 16767 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:08:56 workstation kernel: pid 16749 (wnck-applet), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:08:56 workstation kernel: pid 16791 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:03 workstation kernel: pid 16815 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:03 workstation kernel: pid 16816 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:07 workstation kernel: pid 16843 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:12 workstation kernel: pid 16844 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:15 workstation kernel: pid 16842 (wnck-applet), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:16 workstation kernel: pid 16856 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:20 workstation kernel: pid 16869 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:22 workstation kernel: pid 16880 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:27 workstation kernel: pid 16894 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:33 workstation kernel: pid 16907 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:37 workstation kernel: pid 16920 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:41 workstation kernel: pid 16932 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:46 workstation kernel: pid 16945 (mate-settings-daemo), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:09:48 workstation kernel: pid 16958 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
Feb 23 22:55:44 workstation kernel: pid 17080 (firefox), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
Feb 24 05:53:38 workstation kernel: pid 16984 (mate-panel), jid 0, uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

What should I make of this? Ignore it and keep moving forward?

 

[grahamperrin]

… (no specific … BSD version). …

Is any version of FreeBSD not RELEASE, and are all installations of FreeBSD up-to-date?

Packages from latest, or quarterly?

freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled

… Ignore it and keep moving forward?

If you want any application to not crash, focus on diagnosing the application.

It's extremely rare for Firefox to crash without a good reason.

Don't put everything under a MATE umbrella.

<http://daemonforums.org/showpost.php?s=6a1d18be2eda4ade0c456c1cf0b833f0&p=71873&postcount=2> there's a brief explanation of what can be done with a .core file.

⋯.core files can appear at various paths.

bfs -name "*.core" -type f -s /

sysutils/bfs