For info: What to do to enable coredumps in opensuse 13.1 under systemd #echo "|/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %p %u %g %s %t %e" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern create /etc/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf with this content: kernel.core_pattern=|@rootlibexecdir@/systemd-coredump %p %u %g %s %t %e #sysctl -w fs.suid_dumpable=2 after you have the dump in your journal, you can see it with: # /usr/bin/systemd-coredumpctl list But I cannot go further, no more info available. As usual systemd is born to give us troubles