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NAME

       coredumpctl - Retrieve and process saved core dumps and metadata

SYNOPSIS

       coredumpctl [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND} [PID|COMM|EXE|MATCH...]

DESCRIPTION

       coredumpctl is a tool that can be used to retrieve and process core dumps and metadata
       which were saved by systemd-coredump(8).

COMMANDS

       The following commands are understood:

       list
           List core dumps captured in the journal matching specified characteristics. If no
           command is specified, this is the implied default.

           The output is designed to be human readable and contains a table with the following
           columns:

           TIME
               The timestamp of the crash, as reported by the kernel.

           PID
               The identifier of the process that crashed.

           UID, GID
               The user and group identifiers of the process that crashed.

           SIGNAL
               The signal that caused the process to crash, when applicable.

           COREFILE
               Information whether the coredump was stored, and whether it is still accessible:
               "none" means the core was not stored, "-" means that it was not available (for
               example because the process was not terminated by a signal), "present" means that
               the core file is accessible by the current user, "journal" means that the core was
               stored in the "journal", "truncated" is the same as one of the previous two, but
               the core was too large and was not stored in its entirety, "error" means that the
               core file cannot be accessed, most likely because of insufficient permissions, and
               "missing" means that the core was stored in a file, but this file has since been
               removed.

           EXE
               The full path to the executable. For backtraces of scripts this is the name of the
               interpreter.

           It's worth noting that different restrictions apply to data saved in the journal and
           core dump files saved in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, see overview in systemd-
           coredump(8). Thus it may very well happen that a particular core dump is still listed
           in the journal while its corresponding core dump file has already been removed.

       info
           Show detailed information about the last core dump or core dumps matching specified
           characteristics captured in the journal.

       dump
           Extract the last core dump matching specified characteristics. The core dump will be
           written on standard output, unless an output file is specified with --output=.

       debug
           Invoke a debugger on the last core dump matching specified characteristics. By
           default, gdb(1) will be used. This may be changed using the --debugger= option or the
           $SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER environment variable. Use the --debugger-arguments= option to pass
           extra command line arguments to the debugger.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
           Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
           Print a short version string and exit.

       --no-pager
           Do not pipe output into a pager.

       --no-legend
           Do not print the legend, i.e. column headers and the footer with hints.

       --json=MODE
           Shows output formatted as JSON. Expects one of "short" (for the shortest possible
           output without any redundant whitespace or line breaks), "pretty" (for a pretty
           version of the same, with indentation and line breaks) or "off" (to turn off JSON
           output, the default).

       -1
           Show information of the most recent core dump only, instead of listing all known core
           dumps. Equivalent to --reverse -n 1.

       -n INT
           Show at most the specified number of entries. The specified parameter must be an
           integer greater or equal to 1.

       -S, --since
           Only print entries which are since the specified date.

       -U, --until
           Only print entries which are until the specified date.

       -r, --reverse
           Reverse output so that the newest entries are displayed first.

       -F FIELD, --field=FIELD
           Print all possible data values the specified field takes in matching core dump entries
           of the journal.

       -o FILE, --output=FILE
           Write the core to FILE.

       --debugger=DEBUGGER
           Use the given debugger for the debug command. If not given and $SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER is
           unset, then gdb(1) will be used.

       -A ARGS, --debugger-arguments=ARGS
           Pass the given ARGS as extra command line arguments to the debugger. Quote as
           appropriate when ARGS contain whitespace. (See Examples.)

       --file=GLOB
           Takes a file glob as an argument. If specified, coredumpctl will operate on the
           specified journal files matching GLOB instead of the default runtime and system
           journal paths. May be specified multiple times, in which case files will be suitably
           interleaved.

       -D DIR, --directory=DIR
           Use the journal files in the specified DIR.

       -q, --quiet
           Suppresses informational messages about lack of access to journal files and possible
           in-flight coredumps.

       --all
           Look at all available journal files in /var/log/journal/ (excluding journal
           namespaces) instead of only local ones.

MATCHING

       A match can be:

       PID
           Process ID of the process that dumped core. An integer.

       COMM
           Name of the executable (matches COREDUMP_COMM=). Must not contain slashes.

       EXE
           Path to the executable (matches COREDUMP_EXE=). Must contain at least one slash.

       MATCH
           General journalctl match filter, must contain an equals sign ("="). See journalctl(1).

EXIT STATUS

       On success, 0 is returned; otherwise, a non-zero failure code is returned. Not finding any
       matching core dumps is treated as failure.

ENVIRONMENT

       $SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER
           Use the given debugger for the debug command. See the --debugger= option.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1. List all the core dumps of a program

           $ coredumpctl list /lib64/firefox/firefox
           TIME     PID  UID  GID SIG     COREFILE EXE                         SIZE
           Tue ...   8018 1000 1000 SIGSEGV missing  /lib64/firefox/firefox   n/a
           Wed ... 251609 1000 1000 SIGTRAP missing  /lib64/firefox/firefox   n/a
           Fri ... 552351 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /lib64/firefox/firefox 28.7M

       The journal has three entries pertaining to /lib64/firefox/firefox, and only the last
       entry still has an available core file (in external storage on disk).

       Note that coredumpctl needs access to the journal files to retrieve the relevant entries
       from the journal. Thus, an unprivileged user will normally only see information about
       crashing programs of this user.

       Example 2. Invoke gdb on the last core dump

           $ coredumpctl debug

       Example 3. Use gdb to display full register info from the last core dump

           $ coredumpctl debug --debugger-arguments="-batch -ex 'info all-registers'"

       Example 4. Show information about a core dump matched by PID

           $ coredumpctl info 6654
                      PID: 6654 (bash)
                      UID: 1000 (user)
                      GID: 1000 (user)
                   Signal: 11 (SEGV)
                Timestamp: Mon 2021-01-01 00:00:01 CET (20s ago)
             Command Line: bash -c $'kill -SEGV $$'
               Executable: /usr/bin/bash
            Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/...
                     Unit: user@1000.service
                User Unit: vte-spawn-....scope
                    Slice: user-1000.slice
                Owner UID: 1000 (user)
                  Boot ID: ...
               Machine ID: ...
                 Hostname: ...
                  Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.bash.1000.....zst (present)
                Disk Size: 51.7K
                  Message: Process 130414 (bash) of user 1000 dumped core.

                           Stack trace of thread 130414:
                           #0  0x00007f398142358b kill (libc.so.6 + 0x3d58b)
                           #1  0x0000558c2c7fda09 kill_builtin (bash + 0xb1a09)
                           #2  0x0000558c2c79dc59 execute_builtin.lto_priv.0 (bash + 0x51c59)
                           #3  0x0000558c2c79709c execute_simple_command (bash + 0x4b09c)
                           #4  0x0000558c2c798408 execute_command_internal (bash + 0x4c408)
                           #5  0x0000558c2c7f6bdc parse_and_execute (bash + 0xaabdc)
                           #6  0x0000558c2c85415c run_one_command.isra.0 (bash + 0x10815c)
                           #7  0x0000558c2c77d040 main (bash + 0x31040)
                           #8  0x00007f398140db75 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27b75)
                           #9  0x0000558c2c77dd1e _start (bash + 0x31d1e)

       Example 5. Extract the last core dump of /usr/bin/bar to a file named bar.coredump

           $ coredumpctl -o bar.coredump dump /usr/bin/bar

SEE ALSO

       systemd-coredump(8), coredump.conf(5), systemd-journald.service(8), gdb(1)