Over the years, we've found that one of the causes of spontaneuous JVM combustion is bad memory. Can you run a memory check on your machine ? Its not always the case though, and sometimes we end up changing JDK versions and that fixes it. G. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari wrote: > Hi Varun, > > Never faced this error ever. And I faced a lot ;) Even by running with > OpenJDK 1.x. and I'm running eglibc on all my servers. > > ldd --version > ldd (Debian EGLIBC 2.13-38) 2.13 > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. > > > JM > > 2013/5/1 Varun Sharma > > > From what I see from > > ldd --version > > ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10.3) 2.15 > > > > We are running eglibc which is somewhat different from glibc - > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_GLIBC. > > > > It seems that this is a problem with Ubuntu, have folks seen this on non > > ubuntu installs ? > > > > Thanks > > Varun > > > > > > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Varun Sharma > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am seeing the following which is a JVM segfault: > > > > > > hbase-regionser[28734]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f269bcc307e sp > > > 00007fff50f7e638 error 4 in libc-2.15.so[7f269bc51000+1b5000] > > > > > > Benoit Tsuna reported a similar issue a while back - > > > > > > http://blog.tsunanet.net/2011/05/jvm-u24-segfault-in-clearerr-on-jaunty.html > > > > > > I wonder if there was ever a resolution on the issue. We are running > java > > > version "1.6.0_38" > > > , ubuntu precise 12.04 - kernel 3.2. The libc version from the above > line > > > seems to be 2.15. > > > > > > I wonder if people have seen this in the past and if yes, were they > able > > > to resolve it and if yes, then how ? Was it a VM upgrade, a kernel > > upgrade > > > or a libc upgrade ? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Varun > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Graeme Wallace CTO FareCompare.com O: 972 588 1414 M: 214 681 9018