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<refentry id="coredumpctl" conditional='ENABLE_COREDUMP'
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>coredumpctl</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Zbigniew</firstname>
- <surname>Jędrzejewski-Szmek</surname>
- <email>zbyszek@in.waw.pl</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
all known core dumps.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-S</option></term>
+ <term><option>--since</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Only print entries which are since the specified date.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-U</option></term>
+ <term><option>--until</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Only print entries which are until the specified date.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-r</option></term>
<term><option>--reverse</option></term>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--debugger=</option><replaceable>DEBUGGER</replaceable></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Use the given debugger for the <command>debug</command>
+ command. If not given and <varname>$SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER</varname> is unset, then
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ will be used. </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-D</option> <replaceable>DIR</replaceable></term>
<term><option>--directory=</option><replaceable>DIR</replaceable></term>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>-q</option></term>
+ <term><option>--quiet</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Suppresses informational messages about lack
+ of access to journal files and possible in-flight coredumps.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
matching specified characteristics. If no command is
specified, this is the implied default.</para>
+ <para>The output is designed to be human readable and contains list contains
+ a table with the following columns:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>TIME</term>
+ <listitem><para>The timestamp of the crash, as reported by the kernel.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>PID</term>
+ <listitem><para>The identifier of the process that crashed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>UID</term>
+ <term>GID</term>
+ <listitem><para>The user and group identifiers of the process that crashed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>SIGNAL</term>
+ <listitem><para>The signal that caused the process to crash, when applicable.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>COREFILE</term>
+ <listitem><para>Information whether the coredump was stored, and whether
+ it is still accessible: <literal>none</literal> means the core was
+ not stored, <literal>-</literal> means that it was not available (for
+ example because the process was not terminated by a signal),
+ <literal>present</literal> means that the core file is accessible by the
+ current user, <literal>journal</literal> means that the core was stored
+ in the <literal>journal</literal>, <literal>truncated</literal> is the
+ same as one of the previous two, but the core was too large and was not
+ stored in its entirety, <literal>error</literal> means that the core file
+ cannot be accessed, most likely because of insufficient permissions, and
+ <literal>missing</literal> means that the core was stored in a file, but
+ this file has since been removed.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>EXE</term>
+ <listitem><para>The full path to the executable. For backtraces of scripts
+ this is the name of the interpreter.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
<para>It's worth noting that different restrictions apply to
data saved in the journal and core dump files saved in
<filename>/var/lib/systemd/coredump</filename>, see overview in
<varlistentry>
<term><command>info</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Show detailed information about core dumps
+ <listitem><para>Show detailed information about the last core dump
+ or core dumps matching specified characteristics
captured in the journal.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><command>gdb</command></term>
-
- <listitem><para>Invoke the GNU debugger on the last core dump
- matching specified characteristics. </para></listitem>
+ <term><command>debug</command></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Invoke a debugger on the last core dump
+ matching specified characteristics. By default,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ will be used. This may be changed using the <option>--debugger=</option>
+ option or the <varname>$SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER</varname> environment
+ variable.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable>MATCH</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para>General journalctl predicates (see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
- Must contain an equal sign. </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>General journalctl match filter, must contain an equals
+ sign (<literal>=</literal>). See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
</para>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Environment</title>
+
+ <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Use the given debugger for the <command>debug</command>
+ command. See the <option>--debugger=</option> option.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<example>
<title>Invoke gdb on the last core dump</title>
- <programlisting># coredumpctl gdb</programlisting>
+ <programlisting># coredumpctl debug</programlisting>
</example>
<example>