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I'm running Fedora 23, and just recently discovered that abrt handles the coredumps from my crashed application, and places all kind of stuff in /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-date-pid. Is there a command to fetch a coredump from abrt, without manually copying it from the indicated folder? Or could I have abrt feed the coredump to gdb, and also load the binary?

I would prefer not to change /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern.

I'm thinking somehting along the lines of:

$ cc -g -o foo main.c
$ ./foo
segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ abrt-magic d55ba08dd0535a223d4a7...
(gdb) # time to do post mortem debugging...

Where of course abrt-magic would be replaced with some command.

If there is no such command, is there some other aproach? I've read that systemd has some coredump util, but I couldn't find it in my distro.

I originally posted this on stackoverflow, but perhaps the question is better suited here.

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@meuh answered this on Stackoverflow, and this was pretty much the answer I was looking for.

You can get an "old-fashioned" core dump in the usual current directory of the process, if the ulimit -c value allows it, by setting

MakeCompatCore = yes

in config file /etc/abrt/plugins/CCpp.conf.

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