Solaris Core dump analysis

Question

I use pstack to analyze core dump files in Solaris

How else can I analyze the core dump from solaris?

What commands can be used to do this?

What othe

Answer 1

If the core dump is from a program you wrote or built, then use whichever debugger you would normally use to debug the running application. They should all be able to load core files. If you're not picky about debuggers, and you're using Solaris, I would recommend dbx. It will help to get the latest FCS version of Sun Studio with patches, or else the latest Express version of Sun Studio. It's also very helpful if you can load the core file into the debugger on the same system where the core file was created. If the code in the libraries is different from when the core file was created, then stack trace won't be useful when it goes through libraries. Debuggers also use OS helper libraries for understanding the libthread and runtime linker data structures, so IF you need to load the core file on a different machine, you'll want to make sure the helper libraries installed on the OS match the system data structures in the OS. You can find out everything you never wanted to know about these system libraries in a white paper that was written a few years ago.

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/DebugLibraries/DebugLibraries_content.html