Core Dumps

Purpose

Guide agents through enabling, collecting, and analysing core dumps for post-mortem crash investigation without rerunning the buggy program.

Triggers

• "My program crashed in production — how do I analyse the core?"
• "How do I enable core dumps on Linux?"
• "I have a core file but no symbols / source"
• "How do I use debuginfod to get symbols for a core?"
• "coredumpctl show me the crash"

Workflow

1. Enable core dumps (Linux)