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Patrick J. McNerthney commented on PYLUCENE-17: ----------------------------------------------- I like rev 1353792. I dare say I think I even like it better then my proposal! ;) I'll run my tests overnight, but so far, so good. > Possible race condition with pylucene attachCurrentThread > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PYLUCENE-17 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PYLUCENE-17 > Project: PyLucene > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: Linux 2.6.39 > Sun jdk 1.6.26 > Reporter: Greg Bowyer > Labels: pylucene > Attachments: PYLUCENE-17-3.patch, PYLUCENE-17-4.patch, backtrace, > diff.17.txt, lucene-threadtest.py > > > It looks like there is a possible race that can cause null pointer exceptions > in the JVM, making it crash > Because its a race it is hard to reproduce, the best luck I have had so far > is dropping my FS cache in the OS, which seems to slow down the > initialisation of the JVM enough to make it easier to reproduce. > Attached is my test case > Test session follows > --------------------------------------------------------------- > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ sudo bash -c 'echo 3 > > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ python ./lucene-threadtest.py > # > # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: > # > # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f79226b35c8, pid=26581, tid=140158003312384 > # > # JRE version: 6.0_26-b03 > # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.1-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 > compressed oops) > # Problematic frame: > # V [libjvm.so+0x4b05c8] instanceKlass::cached_itable_index(unsigned > long)+0x18 > # > # An error report file with more information is saved as: > # /home/greg/programming/python/hs_err_pid26581.log > # > # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: > # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp > # > Aborted (core dumped) > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ python ./lucene-threadtest.py > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ python ./lucene-threadtest.py > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ python ./lucene-threadtest.py > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ rm -r /tmp/test-index/ > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ sudo bash -c 'echo 3 > > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ python ./lucene-threadtest.py > # > # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: > [thread 139988165344768 also had an error][thread 139988165344768 also had an > error]# > # SIGSEGV (0xb) > at pc=0x00007f5197550a29, pid=27657, tid=139988039468800 > # > # JRE version: 6.0_26-b03 > # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.1-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 > compressed oops) > # Problematic frame: > # V [libjvm.so+0x4f2a29] unsigned+0x299 > # > # An error report file with more information is saved as: > # /home/greg/programming/python/hs_err_pid27657.log > # > # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: > # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp > # > Aborted (core dumped) > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ python ./lucene-threadtest.py > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ sudo bash -c 'echo 3 > > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ python ./lucene-threadtest.py > # > # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: > # > # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f51bc2eaa1e, pid=28124, tid=139988377052928 > # > # JRE version: 6.0_26-b03 > # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.1-b02 mixed mode linux-amd64 > compressed oops) > # Problematic frame: > # V [libjvm.so+0x4f2a1e] unsigned+0x28e > # > # An error report file with more information is saved as: > # /home/greg/programming/python/hs_err_pid28124.log > # > # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: > # http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp > # > Aborted (core dumped) > greg@localhost ~/programming/python $ -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira