Tux Racer crashes X... where is the core dump?

trusted_content · 06-07-2003, 03:46 PM

Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS running RH9

Every time I try to start Tux Racer a window pops up for half a second, then X crashes, and I end up being returned to the GDM screen. Aside from any possible explanations for this crash, shouldn't there be a core dump saved somewhere or a message than I can analyze? I've tried running it after using the bash command ulimit -c unlimited, but I still don't see a dump file anywhere.

whansard · 06-07-2003, 04:21 PM

wow. somebody who actually wants a dump file.
i think you should be checking your logfiles for error
messages, not binary dumpfiles.

carlywarly · 06-08-2003, 02:51 AM

If you open a console, and start tuxracer from the console, using the command tuxracer, once the program crashes, the console should still be open and contain some error messages for you to analyse.

whansard · 06-08-2003, 03:33 AM

tc said it was crashing his X, so the console would
be dead too.
i guess he could start it in a console with standard
error redirected to a file.
it almost has to be some feature in X crashing, like
the glcore module. you can comment that module
out in your XF86Config, by the way, and start tux without
gl, and see if it crashes.

unSpawn · 06-08-2003, 07:08 AM

...and if you want more verbosity in your Xfree logging, try starting X as "startx -- -verbose 0 -logverbose 9". This should dump minimal info on the commandline, but max info in the logfile.