I can repo this on my laptop; am trying to repo it on a toronto machine. Under load (agressive garbage collection, finalization, and with a shortage of file descriptors), the main thread's stack is corrupted vis: #0 0x0810a362 in log (logger=0xbfcb85e0, pid=0xfffffff6, status=0xffffffff, err=0xa) at ../../frysk/frysk-sys/frysk/sys/cni/Wait.cxx:87 #1 0x0810ad18 in frysk::sys::Wait::wait (waitPid=0xd8da0, waitBuilder=0x4104fe8, signalBuilder=0x8208570, millisecondTimeout=0xbfcb862004104828, ignoreECHILD=0x0) at ../../frysk/frysk-sys/frysk/sys/cni/Wait.cxx:528 #2 0x02df4240 in java::lang::reflect::Method::invoke (this=0x51ba0, obj=0xd8da0, args=0x2bfd8) at ../../../libjava/java/lang/reflect/natMethod.cc:187 frame #2 should be either a test or tear-down routine. The bogus call to wait leading to an NPE. $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)
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