debug core file of size 50GB using GDB in RHEL5

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:09:10 +0100, santoshp wrote:
>   Number of program headers:         0
>   Size of section headers:           0 (bytes)
>   Number of section headers:         0
>   Section header string table index: 0

>From this core file no tool can extract anything, the core file is invalid.

It is rather questionable how the core file was generated.

Was it a normal kernel dump (->kernel bug, unrelated to gdb) or by the gdb
gcore command?


Thanks,
Jan