Gnome-terminal crashes (still no core dumps)

[Ben Stringer]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 11:22, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Although I edited /etc/profile to set ulimit -c 100000 globally - verfied 
> the parameter is set from a bash prompt, but then again, /etc/profile might 
> only target the shell (ie bash) - a core file was not dumped on the fourth 
> crash of gnome-terminal this week I just experienced (really need to setup 
> email under Linux ;).
> 
> How do I enable core dumps under X so I can debug these crashes (or at 
> least upload a core file to bugzilla)?

Did you exit and restart X? The shell that runs X will not pick up the
/etc/profile change, even though new shells do, and if you start Gnome
terminal from a menu or taskbar icon, it will be spawned from as a
descendant of that original shell.

Cheers, Ben