[erlang-bugs] Erlang can completely hang FreeBSD 7.1

[Kenji Rikitake]

The hanging bug was confirmed on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE on Panasonic CF-Y5, with:
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU L2400  @ 1.66GHz (1662.51-MHz 686-class CPU)

This bug was reproducible either Erlang R12B5 port was built on
gcc-3.4.6 (port gcc34) and gcc-4.2.1 (stock cc for 7.x), with HiPE.

The system hangs with no response, no crash dump, only powercycling
helps.

Kenji Rikitake

In the message <ab09a9970902020322k71e78ca2pf4b27d561c369d07@REDACTED>
dated Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:22:29AM -0800,
Sergey S <ad.sergey@REDACTED> writes:
> I've found that such a freeze is a result of the following Erlang call
> in the escript.erl:
> 
> net_kernel:start([test_node, shortnames])
> 
> This call make it possible to do RPC's to another Erlang nodes from escript.
> 
> This bug never happens under Linux to me (I used Archlinux for testing).