The Monday 2005-01-17 at 05:17 -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote: I just said a minute ago:
I remember some strange question about that program, or some strange behavior reported here time ago, perhaps around two years. My fuzzy-online-biological-memory says it is related, but being fuzzy and unreliable I can't pinpoint you to the exact source.
And then I found this, as I was about to delete the temporary folder after my search: |> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:32:00 -0500 |> From: Bob Pearson |> To: SuSE-Linux-English <suse-linux-e |> Subject: Re: [SLE] core dump file size limit |> |> On Thursday 19 February 2004 4:51 am, you wrote: |> |> If you are running SLP 9.0 it is complicated but I can send you directions. |> Do you have source? In 9.0 SuSE has coredumps disabled via /usr/bin/gpg-agent |> in package newpg-0.9.4-119 which is called from gdm and kdm at least. |> Please let me know if you are running 9.0 and have source. And later: |> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:09:11 -0500 |> From: Bob Pearson |> To: suse-kde, suse-linux-e |> Subject: [SLE] Enabling core dumps on SLP 9.0 i386 Solved |> |> After a great deal of searching I was able to determine and fix the inability |> to get core dumps in SLP 9.0 under a KDM login. Evidently, gpg-agent plays |> some role in a KDM login, what I am not sure but it explicitly disables core |> dumps in it's main function. |> |> I was able to build a new version of /usr/bin/gpg-agent from package |> newpg-0.9.4-119 using it's source RPM and build(1). It is missing several |> dependencies for the build if BUILD_ROOT is set in your environment. If you |> do not set BUILD_ROOT it uses /var/tmp and does not have any missing |> dependencies. I have included the changes needed to gpg-agent.c and |> instructions for building a new /usr/bin/gpg-agent. |> |> which is just commenting out the call to: |> |> #if notdef |> may_coredump = disable_core_dumps (); |> #endif |> |> in agent/gpg-agent.c [cut] I'm sure you can retrieve the full thread; you see that gpg-agent does interfere in more than one way. I hope it will help you to find out more - and if you do, I'll be curious to know about it ;-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson