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Plasma Crash Course - coredumpd

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 28, 2024

Quoting: Plasma Crash Course - coredumpd - Harald Sitter's KDE Blog —

coredumpd collects all crashes happening on the system, through the core_pattern system. It is shipped as part of systemd and as such mostly available out of the box.

It is fairly sophisticated and can manage the backlog of crashes, so old crashes get cleaned out from time to time. It also tightly integrates with journald giving us a well-defined interface to access crash metadata.

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