How to collect core dump files for gdm.service and gnome-shell when they crash?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Getting the following logs from systemd journal, but the related core files are not collected by the systemd-coredumpd.

    Feb 24 12:19:01 hostname org.gnome.Shell.desktop[9876]: == Stack trace for context 0x563ce451c2b0 ==
Feb 24 12:19:01 hostname audisp-syslog[4886]: node=hostname type=ANOM_ABEND msg=audit(1740399541.343:259): auid=4294967295 uid=42 gid=42 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=9876 comm="gnome-shell" exe="/usr/bin/gnome-shell" sig=11 res=1 AUID="unset" UID="gdm" GID="gdm"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    • components
      • gdm
      • gnome-shell

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