[erlang-questions] Erlang initiated kernel panic on OSX

[Briggs]

All built using MacPorts. 3 separate machines. All built from source.

On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Konstantin Tcepliaev <f355@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> Just curious: how did you obtain the binaries for Erlang VM? Homebrew/MacPorts/ESL build/compiled by yourself from source/whatever?
> I mean, I've been using Erlang R14B04 to R15B02, from Homebrew and built by myself, on OSX 10.6 to 10.8.2, and never had any such problems.
>  
> -- 
> Konstantin
> 27.11.2012, 01:02, "acidbriggs@REDACTED" <acidbriggs@REDACTED>:
>> Don't get me wrong, I have no doubts that it's an OS X bug. But, getting that fixed via Apple is next to impossible. I am not sure of the mechanism as to why it crashes the OS, but it does. It is reproducible. I was just hoping someone might know how to patch Erlang to help avoid the OS X bug as it's really irritating.
>> If anyone is curious you can see that the process that caused the panic was named "beam.smp":
>> Interval Since Last Panic Report:  2399141 sec
>> Panics Since Last Report:          1
>> Anonymous UUID:                    1C24E5B9-05B7-8082-2863-4E5C3ECA6AEC
>> Thu Nov 15 11:44:13 2012
>> panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8006d1fdca): "negative open count (c, 16, 3)"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/bsd/miscfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c:1813
>> Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bbe0 : 0xffffff8006c1d626 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bc50 : 0xffffff8006d1fdca 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bc90 : 0xffffff8006d24c56 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bce0 : 0xffffff8006d11c96 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bd20 : 0xffffff8006d094af 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bd50 : 0xffffff8006d08645 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bda0 : 0xffffff8006f4c56c 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1be10 : 0xffffff8006f4cae6 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1be50 : 0xffffff8006f5697b 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bec0 : 0xffffff8006c39cc9 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bef0 : 0xffffff8006c3c7c8 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bf20 : 0xffffff8006c3c63e 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bf50 : 0xffffff8006c1b70d 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bf90 : 0xffffff8006cb8163 
>> 0xffffff80f7e1bfb0 : 0xffffff8006cce4bc 
>> BSD process name corresponding to current thread: beam.smp
>> Mac OS version:
>> 12C60
>> On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 
>>> How erlang be guilty in killing kernel of unix OS? It isn't DOS
>>> What is the exact mechanism of this Mac failure (and it is definitely Mac failure, not erlang failure).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:28 AM, <acidbriggs@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Back in March of 2010 it was reported that it was possible to initiate a kernel panic on OS X 10.6.2 with Erlang.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know if there is a fix for this? This is still happening in OS X 10.8.2 with Erlang R15B02. I've had it happen on all three of my Macs when working in Emacs and killing an Erlang shell in a buffer in a non-clean way.
>>> 
>>> I know that the problem was reported to Apple but we know how that is.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps someone has some sort of patch that can be applied to Erlang that can stop it from exploiting this flaw?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Briggs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The original thread (http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2010-March/050112.html) stated:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>>> Using Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and Erlang R13B04 it's possible to cause a
>>> kernel panic using the following steps:
>>> 
>>> 1. Start new terminal window
>>> 2. erl +K true -s crypto
>>> 3. Cmd-W (close the terminal window without stopping erlang)
>>> 
>>> Alternatively, if you're running SL 10.6.2 and Erlang R13B03:
>>> 
>>> 1. Start new terminal window
>>> 2. erl +K true -s crypto
>>> 3. Cmd-Q (quit the terminal app without stopping erlang)
>>> 
>>> This appears to work with either 32 or 64 bit builds of Erlang.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> D.
>>> 
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