Bug 1291857 - When aborting due to large distribution, Erlang does not produce a crash dump
Summary: When aborting due to large distribution, Erlang does not produce a crash dump
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat OpenStack
Classification: Red Hat
Component: erlang
Version: 5.0 (RHEL 7)
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
unspecified
Target Milestone: async
: 5.0 (RHEL 7)
Assignee: John Eckersberg
QA Contact: nlevinki
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Depends On: 1291822
Blocks: 1262455 1291855
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Reported: 2015-12-15 17:51 UTC by John Eckersberg
Modified: 2023-02-22 23:02 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: erlang-R16B-03.7min.3.el7ost
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 1291822
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-02-11 13:44:07 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:0167 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Bug Fix Advisory 2016-02-11 18:41:37 UTC

Description John Eckersberg 2015-12-15 17:51:58 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1291822 +++

Erlang aborts in dist_port_command with ERTS_ABORT_EXIT:

    if (size > (Uint) INT_MAX)
	erl_exit(ERTS_ABORT_EXIT,
		 "Absurdly large distribution output data buffer "
		 "(%beu bytes) passed.\n",
		 size);

However, ERTS_ABORT_EXIT inhibits erlang crash dump generation.  It would be better to exit with ERTS_DUMP_EXIT so a crash dump is generated, in order to help debug crashes from large messages.
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-02-11 13:44:07 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0167.html
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