Bug 161497

Summary:	Java 1.5.0_03-b07 crashes under this kernel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nicolas Carranza <nicarran>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	pfrields, wtogami
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Nicolas Carranza 2005-06-23 18:41:04 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050415

Description of problem:
Running:
---
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
  java -version
done
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causes java to crash randomly (~1/20 times). This does not happen under kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.i686.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the script provided in the description.
2. Java causes a segmentation fault or cashes the creash an report a hs_err file
  

Actual Results:  The system remain stable.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-07-08 00:29:16 UTC

please try echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec_shield

Comment 2 Dave Jones 2005-07-15 19:29:10 UTC

An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which
may contain a fix for your problem.   Please update to this new kernel, and
report whether or not it fixes your problem.

If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem
still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version
field of this bug to 'fc4'.

Thank you.