Ubuntu 16.04 enable crash coredump

Start the service for saving crash coredump

sudo service apport start

Configuration

By default, the crash dump of non-deb package programs is not saved. Modify the following configuration file to save the crash dump of all programs.

vi ~/.config/apport/settings

Adding following lines to the file.

[main]
unpackaged=true

crash dump files

The crash dump file is saved in /var/crash by default.

crash log decompression

apport-unpack xxx.crash output_dir

Debugging coredump file

gdb your_exe CoreDump