[kaffe] cvs kaffe flakey (i386, recent glibc)

Guilhem Lavaux guilhem at kaffe.org
Wed Oct 13 10:25:31 PDT 2004


Noa Resare wrote:
> With today's cvs kaffe i have experienced some serious instability on my
> Fedora Core 2 test 2 box (Athlon). When trying the TheadState regression
> test 10 times i got the following:
> 
> 6 times no problem
> 
> 2 times:
> Internal error: caught an unexpected exception.
> Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation.
> java/lang/NullPointerException
> Avbruten (SIGABRT)

Hmm... maybe it's linked to something I've done yesterday. I'm pretty 
sure the thread list locking is consistent now but we never know. I've 
tested ThreadState successfully on a stressed 2.6.8.1/x86.

> 
> 1 time, silent lockup. No Success messages, no cpu utilization.
> 1 time, lockup after a 5 Success messages, no cpu utilization
> 

I expect a race condition there (again...).

> I'll do some binary searching for the 'latest good' cvs state now, but
> if anyone has an idea of what to look for I'm interseted.
> 

-infinite. ;)


> /noa
> 

Guilhem.




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