man: describe coredump fields

We save a wealth of information about the process, but this might not be
immediately obvious.
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log a summary of the event to
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
including information about the process identifier, owner, the signal that killed the process, and the
stack trace if possible. It may also save the core dump for later processing.</para>
stack trace if possible. It may also save the core dump for later processing. See the "Information about
the crashed process" section below.</para>
<para>The behavior of a specific program upon reception of a signal is governed by a few
factors which are described in detail in
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</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Usage</title>
<para>Data stored in the journal can be viewed with
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> as usual.
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> can be
used to retrieve saved core dumps independent of their location, to display information and to process
them e.g. by passing to the GNU debugger (gdb).</para>
<title>Information about the crashed process</title>
<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> can
be used to retrieve saved core dumps independently of their location, to display information, and to
process them e.g. by passing to the GNU debugger (gdb).</para>
<para>Data stored in the journal can be also viewed with
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> as usual
(or from any other process, using the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> API).
The relevant messages have <constant>MESSAGE_ID=fc2e22bc6ee647b6b90729ab34a250b1</constant>:</para>
<programlisting>$ journalctl MESSAGE_ID=fc2e22bc6ee647b6b90729ab34a250b1 -o verbose
MESSAGE_ID=fc2e22bc6ee647b6b90729ab34a250b1
COREDUMP_PID=552351
COREDUMP_UID=1000
COREDUMP_GID=1000
COREDUMP_SIGNAL_NAME=SIGSEGV
COREDUMP_SIGNAL=11
COREDUMP_TIMESTAMP=1614342930000000
COREDUMP_COMM=Web Content
COREDUMP_EXE=/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
COREDUMP_USER_UNIT=app-gnome-firefox-552136.scope
COREDUMP_CMDLINE=/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 5 -isForBrowser …
COREDUMP_CGROUP=/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-….scope
COREDUMP_FILENAME=/var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.Web….552351.….zst
</programlisting>
<para>The following fields are saved (if known) with the journal entry</para>
<variablelist class='journal-directives'>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_UID=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_PID=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_GID=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The process number (PID) and owner (UID and GID) of the crashed process.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_TIMESTAMP=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The time of the crash as reported by the kernel (in µs since the epoch).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_RLIMIT=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The core file size soft resource limit, see
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>getrlimit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_UNIT=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_SLICE=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The system unit and slice names.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_CGROUP=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Control group information in the format used in
<filename>/proc/self/cgroup</filename>. On systems with the unified cgroup hierarchy, this is a
single path prefixed with <literal>0::</literal>, and multiple paths prefixed with controller numbers
on legacy systems.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_OWNER_UID=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_USER_UNIT=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The numerical UID of the user owning the login session or systemd user unit of the
crashed process, and the user manager unit. Both fields are only present for user processes.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_SIGNAL_NAME=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_SIGNAL=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The terminating signal name and numerical value. (Both are included because signal
numbers vary by architecture.)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_CWD=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_ROOT=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The current working directory and root directory of the crashed process.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_OPEN_FDS=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Information about open file descriptors, in the following format:</para>
<programlisting><replaceable>fd</replaceable>:<replaceable>/path/to/file</replaceable>
pos: ...
flags: ...
...
<replaceable>fd</replaceable>:<replaceable>/path/to/file</replaceable>
pos: ...
flags: ...
...
</programlisting>
<para>The first line contains the file descriptor number <replaceable>fd</replaceable> and the path,
while subsequent lines show the contents of
<filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/fdinfo/<replaceable>fd</replaceable></filename>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_COMM=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_EXE=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_PROC_STATUS=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_PROC_MAPS=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_PROC_LIMITS=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_PROC_MOUNTINFO=</varname></term>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_ENVIRON=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Fields that map the per-process entries in the <filename>/proc/</filename>
filesystem: <filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/comm</filename> (the command name
associated with the process), <filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/exe</filename> (the
filename of the executed command), <filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/status</filename>
(various metadata about the process), <filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/maps</filename>
(memory regions visible to the process and their access permissions),
<filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/limits</filename> (the soft and hard resource limits),
<filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/mountinfo</filename> (mount points in the process's
mount namespace), <filename>/proc/<replaceable>pid</replaceable>/environ</filename>
(the environemnt block of the crashed process).</para>
<para>See
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>proc</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_HOSTNAME=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The system hostname.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_CONTAINER_CMDLINE=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>For processes running in a container, the commandline of the process spawning the
container (the first parent process with a different mount namespace).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>When the core is stored in the journal, the core image itself.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_FILENAME=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>When the core is stored externally, the path the the core file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>COREDUMP_TRUNCATED=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Set to <literal>1</literal> when the saved coredump was truncated. (A partial core
image may still be processed by some tools, though obviously not all information is available.)
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>MESSAGE=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The message generated by <command>systemd-coredump</command> that includes the
backtrace if it was successfully generated. When <command>systemd-coredump</command> is invoked with
<option>--backtrace</option>, this field is provided by the caller.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Various other fields exist in the journal entry, but pertain to the logging process,
i.e. <command>systemd-coredump</command>, not the crashed process. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
<para>The following fields are saved (if known) with the external file listed in
<varname>COREDUMP_FILENAME=</varname> as extended attributes:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>user.coredump.pid</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.uid</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.gid</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.signal</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.timestamp</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.rlimit</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.hostname</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.comm</varname></term>
<term><varname>user.coredump.exe</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Those are the same as <varname>COREDUMP_PID=</varname>,
<varname>COREDUMP_UID=</varname>, <varname>COREDUMP_GID=</varname>,
<varname>COREDUMP_SIGNAL=</varname>, <varname>COREDUMP_TIMESTAMP=</varname>,
<varname>COREDUMP_RLIMIT=</varname>, <varname>COREDUMP_HOSTNAME=</varname>,
<varname>COREDUMP_COMM=</varname>, and <varname>COREDUMP_EXE=</varname>, described above.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Those can be viewed using
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>getfattr</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
For the core file described in the journal entry shown above:
<programlisting>$ getfattr --absolute-names -d /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.Web….552351.….zst
# file: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.Web….552351.….zst
user.coredump.pid="552351"
user.coredump.uid="1000"
user.coredump.gid="1000"
user.coredump.signal="11"
user.coredump.timestamp="1614342930000000"
user.coredump.comm="Web Content"
user.coredump.exe="/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox"
</programlisting>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>