[Spacewalk-list] segfault errors and random crashes

[Michael ORourke]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hodrien" <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>
To: <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] segfault errors and random crashes


> 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.
>>
>> ####
>> 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.
>> ####
>>
>> 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

Yeah, it sure seems to be pointing at some sort of hardware issue.  -Mike