Comment # 13 on bug 1030828 from Atri Bhattacharya

(In reply to Fred Blaise from comment #10)
> Hey Atri,
> 
> Good point.
> 
> Yes, I had 4:
> * Clipboard indicator
> * Dash to panel
> * kstatusnotifieritem/appindicator support
> * System monitor
> 
> I just disabled them all. It looks much more stable. I am going to re-enable
> them 1 by 1 to see.
> 
> Also -- and for the purpose of helping debugging this -- any idea why
> systemd-coredump is not taking gnome-shell dump? (Any good pointers
> appreciated.. found a few, but I still couldn't make it take a dump for this
> big process)
> 
> Jul 27 10:34:01 gimli systemd-coredump[11202]: Resource limits disable core
> dumping for process 6651 (gnome-shell).
> 
> The process is less than 3G, so I up'ed /etc/systemd/coredump.conf such as:
> 
> [Coredump]
> Storage=external
> Compress=yes
> ProcessSizeMax=4G
> ExternalSizeMax=4G
> JournalSizeMax=767M
> #MaxUse=
> #KeepFree=
> 
> It does work for some other processes:
> 
> $ coredumpctl list
> [...]
> Mon 2017-06-19 22:39:08 CEST   8830  1000   100   6 missing  
> /usr/bin/kglobalaccel5
> Sat 2017-06-24 12:55:47 CEST  15789  1000   100   6 missing  
> /usr/lib/evolution-data-server/evolution-calendar-factory-subprocess
> Thu 2017-07-06 00:23:22 CEST   2029  1000   100   5 missing  
> /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-alarm-notify
> Thu 2017-07-06 00:23:25 CEST  26310  1000   100  11 missing  
> /opt/google/chrome/chrome
> Thu 2017-07-13 19:23:06 CEST  31693  1000   100  11 missing  
> /usr/bin/kdenlive
> [...]
> 
> Thanks all for the help.
> Cheers,
> fred

Hey Fred,
Sorry, I have no idea why this is not working in your case. On my system, it
just works, I haven't had to modify any configuration from the default TW
installation to get this working.