[erlang-questions] R14B Illegal instruction?

[Mikael Pettersson]

Mark Scandariato writes:
 > I just built R14B for Ubuntu 9.04 (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu
 > 4.3.3-5ubuntu4)) and when I try to enable some async threads, I get an
 > "Illegal instruction" fault.
 > 
 > Here's a stack trace:
 > 
 > erlang@REDACTED:~/otp_src_R14B$ bin/cerl -debug +A 4
 > Illegal instruction (core dumped)
 > erlang@REDACTED:~/otp_src_R14B$ gdb --core=core
 > GNU gdb 6.8-debian
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 > >
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 > This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
 > (no debugging symbols found)
 > Core was generated by
 > `/home/erlang/otp_src_R14B/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/beam.debug -A 4 -- -root
 > /h'.
 > Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
 > [New process 28563]
 > [New process 28587]
 > #0  0x0823d51a in ?? ()
 > (gdb) file /home/erlang/otp_src_R14B/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/beam.debug
 > Reading symbols from
 > /home/erlang/otp_src_R14B/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/beam.debug...done.
 > (gdb) where
 > #0  ethr_event_reset__ (e=0xb769c030) at
 > ../include/internal/pthread/ethr_event.h:94
 > #1  0x0823d723 in ethr_event_reset (e=0xb769c030) at
 > pthread/ethr_event.c:200
 > #2  0x0823cf1c in ethr_thr_create (tid=0xb7580ca4, func=0x81515c6
 > <async_main>, arg=0xb7580c48, opts=0xbfb85348) at pthread/ethread.c:256
 > #3  0x080cb160 in erts_thr_create (tid=0xb7580ca4, func=0x81515c6
 > <async_main>, arg=0xb7580c48, opts=0xbfb85348) at beam/erl_threads.h:348
 > #4  0x081511bb in init_async (hndl=6) at beam/erl_async.c:143
 > #5  0x081c62ab in async_drv_start (port_num=1, name=0x825f3fa "async",
 > opts=0xbfb85400) at sys/unix/sys.c:2375
 > #6  0x080e48d5 in erts_open_driver (driver=0xb769dbb8, pid=4294967291,
 > name=0x825f3fa "async", opts=0xbfb85400, error_number_ptr=0x0)
 >     at beam/io.c:641
 > #7  0x081c66a5 in sys_init_io () at sys/unix/sys.c:2528
 > #8  0x080e60d3 in init_io () at beam/io.c:1304
 > #9  0x0809b41b in erl_init () at beam/erl_init.c:281
 > #10 0x0809dd25 in erl_start (argc=15, argv=0xbfb85704) at
 > beam/erl_init.c:1389
 > #11 0x0807f126 in main (argc=4001536, argv=0x0) at sys/unix/erl_main.c:29
 > 
 > 
 > I can send a core file if anyone wants it.

Show us (a) the contents of the registers, and (b) a disassembly
of the code surrounding the PC that faulted.