Suatu program gagal dijalankan. Eksekusi via terminal menunjukkan segmentation fault tanpa keterangan lainnya. Pada situasi inilah core dump diperlukan untuk debugging sehingga diketahui penyebabnya.
Contoh, geeqie apabila dijalankan di lingkungan wayland berbuah segmentation fault
$ geeqie
Segmentation fault
Saatnya membuat core dump
$ gcore /usr/bin/geeqie
Illegal process-id: /usr/bin/geeqie.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
The program is not being run.
gcore: failed to create core./usr/bin/geeqie
Kemudian eksekusi lagi
$ geeqie
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Core dumped. Filenya core ada di current working directory. Apabila masih belum terbentuk, atur ulimit menjadi unlimited.
$ ulimit -c unlimited
Selanjutnya core tersebut dapat dianalisis menggunakan gdb.
$ gdb /usr/bin/geeqie core
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/geeqie...
(No debugging symbols found in /usr/bin/geeqie)
warning: Can't open file /memfd:gdk-wayland (deleted) during file-backed mapping note processing
warning: Can't open file /memfd:wayland-cursor (deleted) during file-backed mapping note processing
[New LWP 6549]
[New LWP 6550]
[New LWP 6551]
[New LWP 6553]
[New LWP 6567]
[New LWP 6552]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
Core was generated by `geeqie'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x00007f502b4142df in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgdk-3.so.0
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f50221cbfc0 (LWP 6549))]
(gdb)
Dari keterangan di atas, didapatkan bahwa segfault disebabkan karena masalah pada /usr/lib64/libgdk-3.so.0. Namun tidak ada penjelasan lebih detil.