[Spacewalk-list] segfault errors and random crashes

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Michael ORourke wrote:

> I'm trying to deploy spacewalk 0.5 on some new hardware in a datacenter.  When I try pushing a big batch of packages, the system is crashing on me.  Here are some relevant errors from /var/log/messages.
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> Jun 16 01:33:28 skywalker kernel: java[11484]: segfault at 000000003f510eb8 rip 00002abc7ecec117 rsp 000000003f510ec0 error 6
> Jun 16 01:33:29 skywalker wrapper[11429]: JVM exited unexpectedly.
> Jun 16 01:33:33 skywalker wrapper[11429]: Launching a JVM...
> Jun 16 01:33:42 skywalker kernel: rhnpush[14615]: segfault at 00002adad38e6242 rip 00002adad38e6242 rsp 00007fffd91c6dc0 error 15
> Jun 16 02:12:10 skywalker kernel: httpd[15229]: segfault at 00007fff549d5a10 rip 00002b3261b65c98 rsp 00007fff549d5a10 error 4
> Jun 16 02:12:10 skywalker kernel: rhnpush[15881]: segfault at 00007fff30dc08b8 rip 00002b0777f5eb96 rsp 00007fff30dc08c0 error 6
> Jun 17 09:20:20 skywalker syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
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>
> The system has recently been reloaded with CentOS 5.2 x86_64 and it has 8GB RAM and 8 CPU @ 2.80GHz.  I have tested various versions of spacewalk on a couple of different hardware platforms (with much lesser specs), and I have not seen these problems.  Anyone have similar issues?

I'd try running memtest on that system, as I'd be suspicious of the hardware.

jh

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