[erlang-bugs] SIGBUS on init:restart()

[Filipe David Manana]

If I compile OTP R14B03 (also tried R14B01, and got same issue) for
64bits mode in Mac OS X Lion, when calling init:restart() in my
application I get a SIGBUS signal, which causes the VM to terminate
(it happens very often, but not always) with the error message "Bus
error: 10".

Here's some information from gdb which might be useful:

http://friendpaste.com/AL9GKX2pNdyb3NIEYWxcR

Ignoring the SIGBUS signal prevents the crash, but this is likely
masking some bug:

diff --git a/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c b/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
index bafbbb0..86c3f57 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c
@@ -3031,6 +3031,9 @@ erts_sys_main_thread(void)
        fd_set readfds;
        int res;

+    signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
+    signal(SIGBUS, SIG_IGN);
+
        FD_ZERO(&readfds);
        FD_SET(erts_darwin_main_thread_pipe[0], &readfds);
        res = select(erts_darwin_main_thread_pipe[0] + 1, &readfds,
NULL, NULL, NULL);


OTP was configured like this:

$ CFLAGS="-O0" ./configure --enable-darwin-64bit --prefix=/opt/r14b03

Without the --enable-darwin-64bit option, the issue doesn't happen.

Is this a known issue or can it be application-specific? How to debug
it further?

This issue doesn't seem to happen on Linux and Mac OS X snowleopard systems.

thanks


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