Bug#871490: mention how to force listing of /var/lib/systemd/coredump

[Michael Biebl]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:55:06 +0800 =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson
<jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd-coredump
> Version: 234-2
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/coredumpctl.1.gz
> 
> Man page says
> 
>            It's worth noting that different restrictions apply to data saved
>            in the journal and core dump files saved in
>            /var/lib/systemd/coredump, see overview in systemd-coredump(8).
>            Thus it may very well happen that a particular core dump is still
>            listed in the journal while its corresponding core dump file has
>            already been removed.
> 
> 
> OK, but do mention how to make it list these three coredumps.
> 
> # coredumpctl
> No coredumps found.
> # coredumpctl -D /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ list
> No journal files were found.
> No coredumps found.
> # ls -l /var/lib/systemd/coredump/
> -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 4286231 07-30 18:23 core.epiphany.1000.2ba5facaef5c407da86c3f02f72dd40f.1714.1501410216000000.lz4
> -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 8430257 07-30 21:45 core.midori.1000.2ba5facaef5c407da86c3f02f72dd40f.13367.1501422347000000.lz4
> -rw-r-----  1 root root  664045 07-30 18:34 core.udisksd.0.2ba5facaef5c407da86c3f02f72dd40f.363.1501410894000000.lz4

coredumpctl afaik uses the journal to look up coredump entries.
Do the coredumps show up in the journal?
Have you enabled persistent journal or not?


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