[erlang-bugs] Mnesia/R15B: TYPE ASSERTION FAILED, erl_term.c line 109 (when stopping mnesia)

[Winston Smith]

I have run into the following issue with R15B cross compiled to an
AVR32 (similar to ARM) system (no HiPE).


(mynode@REDACTED)6> mnesia:stop().
TYPE ASSERTION FAILED, file beam/erl_term.c, line 109: tag_val_def: 0x8e422b5c
Aborted


Interestingly, if I bring up a standalone erl, I don't get the assert,
it segfaults instead:


# erts-5.9/bin/erl
Eshell V5.9  (abort with ^G)
1> mnesia:create_schema([node()]).
ok
2> mnesia:start().
ok
3> mnesia:stop().
Segmentation fault



I wasn't able to get much from the core file (I'm using a cross
compiled version of gdb), I supposed I'd need to build a debug version
of OTP:


Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1  0xff7f0000 in ?? ()
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)


Any thoughts on tracking this down?

It's possible it's a low memory problem, I am already restricting the
footprint to just stdlib, kernel, inets and mnesia (and my app which
is small).
    - is there any way to enable any kind of allocation tracing so I
can pinpoint this?
    - Does mnesia have a low-memory footprint mode that I can try to
see if that ameliorates the problem?

Thanks!


W.