Install WinDbg. You need to make sure you get the correct version x86 or x64 depending on your dump. Here is a direct link to the download for x86. On that, you need to ensure you took the correct dump. You can use Task Manager to create the dump file (right click on process -> … Read more
Windbg is not the right tool for this job. Dumps are only snapshots so you have no idea what happened before. Use ETW and here the CPU Sampling, which sums all calls and shows you in detail the CPU usage. Install the Windows Performance Toolkit which is part of the Windows 10 SDK (V1607 works … Read more
One of the best way to have an automatic dump for any/specific process on Windows is to configure a set of entries in the registry. I tried the below on Windows 7 64 bit. Open notepad.exe, paste the below entry and save it as “EnableDump.reg”. You can give any name you wish. Windows Registry Editor … Read more
Here are some general steps that will get you on your way: First, you must change your compiler’s settings so that it creates PDB files, even for release builds. Later versions of the Visual C++ compiler do this by default, but in many versions of Visual C++ you must do this yourself. Create program database … Read more
You need to set ulimit -c. If you have 0 for this parameter a coredump file is not created. So do this: ulimit -c unlimited and check if everything is correct ulimit -a. The coredump file is created when an application has done for example something inappropriate. The name of the file on my system … Read more
No, you cannot ad your own data into the crash reports. It is also not possible to access iOS generated crash reports automatically because of the sandbox. So my suggestion is as follows: For logging your own data, use Cocoalumberjack. It is much faster than NSLog or other logging frameworks out there and has an … Read more
Note that creating a minidump from inside the “failing” process (or even thread) itself is not trivial or might not be accurate (also MiniDumpWriteDump function’s Remarks). Besides, if your process is in such anger that you might need to write a crash dump, the whole situation is typically so hosed, that even attempting to create … Read more
Permissions of the folder to write to Looking at the permissions of the folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER it has Read & execute List folder contents Read Creating a subfolder LocalDumps will inherit the permissions. So you should either modify the permissions of that folder or use a different folder with write permissions. Permissions of the Registry key … Read more
Why is bitness relevant here? The bitness matters for .NET applications for the following reasons: a DAC (data access control) library (mscordakwks.dll) of the correct bitness is needed. There’s no cross-bitness DAC available. the debugger needs to be able to load the SOS debugging extension of the correct bitness It is not possible to convert … Read more