Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled

Question

I've been working on a vision project and using some C++ libraries in Java by JNI.

OS: Ubuntu 12.04

In my project, I'm using boost library to generate random number. But sometimes I get an exception as follows:

Core dum140002367330048 also had an error]
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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:    
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#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f54f72a615a, pid=11979, tid=140002352568064
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# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_67-b01) (build 1.7.0_67-b01)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.65-b04 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libCBIR.so+0x3215a]  boost::random::mersenne_twister_engine<unsigned int, 32ul, 624ul, 397ul, 31ul, 2567483615u, 11ul, 4294967295u, 7ul, 2636928640u, 15ul, 4022730752u, 18ul, 1812433253u>::operator()()+0x3a
#
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again

When I searched for this on StackOverflow, I found some issues related to the IDE (Eclipse). The application is independent of the IDE. So, the solution must be independent from the IDE, too. Any ideas?

Did you try `ulimit -c unlimited`, as the error message suggests? — Mike Seymour, Mar 11 '15 at 09:14
Try to enable core dump in Ubuntu - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1494590 — SChepurin, Mar 11 '15 at 09:20
I tried like this and run application again: su - ; ulimit -c unlimited; ulimit -a; I will write again — Omurhan Soysal, Mar 11 '15 at 09:40
@OmurhanSoysal Could you write full answer, please? I'm failed to do it. — Kenenbek Arzymatov, Mar 29 '16 at 11:46

score 34 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

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I was experiencing the same issue.

As, the error itself suggests -

Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try ulimit -c unlimited before starting Java again

ulimit gets and sets user limits. For more info on ulimit do -

man ulimit

So, open a terminal and run -

ulimit -c unlimited

This should solve the problem. To check if the change was successful, run -

ulimit -c -l

This should give you an output as follows -

core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 64

If the problem persists refer to this and this from askUbuntu.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

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answered May 21 '16 at 09:03

UrsinusTheStrong

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Looks obvious, but this answer helped me, as I wasn't sure what the suggested command (ulimit -c unlimited) would cause. Problem solved for me. Thanks. – Pedro Alvares Jun 23 '19 at 21:05

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 21 '18 at 09:47

A core dump or a crash dump is a memory snapshot of a running process. A core dump can be automatically created by the operating system when a fatal or unhandled error (for example, signal or system exception) occurs.

for more info https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/troubleshoot/bugreports004.html

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 12 '19 at 07:50

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For anyone seeing this issue from within Jenkins (as we are): To enable core dumps from jenkins, edit /etc/init.d/jenkins and add "--core" to $DAEMON_ARGS. Setting ulimit directly from the shell script or via /etc/security/limits.conf will not work.

answered Jul 12 '19 at 07:50

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 13 '22 at 07:56

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In my case, this error occured because I used the wrong Java version for my project. I was supposed to use Java 11, and I used Java 8 instead.

answered Sep 13 '22 at 07:56

Revnic Robert-Nick

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Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled

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