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] # # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:     # #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f54f72a615a, pid=11979, tid=140002352568064 # # 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?

Answer 1

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.