Re: random crashes with pthreads

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:31:38 -0500
Michael <macallan18 <at> earthlink.net> wrote:

> More or less. Lots of applications crash randomly here, mostly with bus errors coming from the bowels of
libpthread. Sometimes there are segfaults too, but rarely. For some reason I can't even get a useful stack
trace, usually it's something like this:
> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> [Switching to LWP 1]
> 0x0000000041e0ef80 in pthread__sa_recycle () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000000041e0ef80 in pthread__sa_recycle () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
> Error accessing memory address 0x872: Invalid argument.
> 
> ... looks a bit like it's in the middle of a context switch?
> 
> have fun
> Michael

Hmm... I get similar gdb traces