[Mono-dev] Stability regression on recent git head

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

    Since that did not fix things, could you provide the actual
exception that you are getting, it is amputated here.   Also, we could
use a test case at this point.

> Plastic SCM daemon up. 3.0.187.2 1151 ms startup time
> Stacktrace:
> 
>   at (wrapper managed-to-native) Mono.Unix.UnixSignal.WaitAny
> (intptr[],int,int) <0x00003>
>   at (wrapper managed-to-native) Mono.Unix.UnixSignal.WaitAny
> (intptr[],int,int) <0x00003>
>   at Mono.Unix.UnixSignal.WaitAny (Mono.Unix.UnixSignal[],int) <0x0011e>
>   at Mono.Unix.UnixSignal.WaitAny (Mono.Unix.UnixSignal[]) <0x00012>
>   at Codice.CM.Daemon.Daemon.HandleSignals () <0x0013a>
>   at Codice.CM.Daemon.Daemon.LaunchUnixDaemon
> (Codice.CM.Server.ISystemRunner,string) <0x00036>
>   at xy.c (Codice.CM.Server.SystemRunner) <0x0005f>
>   at xy.a (an) <0x0035c>
>   at xy.a (string[]) <0x000b1>
>   at (wrapper runtime-invoke) <Module>.runtime_invoke_int_object
> (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0x0008f>
> 
> 
> This is 100% repeatable, with the identical stack trace every time.
> Interestingly, it doesn't happen with the sgen GC though I have seen
> this stack trace appear intermittently with sgen, which suggests to me
> that there might be some memory corruption going on that is more likely
> to be tickled by the Boehm GC.
> 
> The actual line of code that triggers the segfault is in
> mono/support/signal.c, in wait_for_any():
> 
> diff --git a/support/signal.c b/support/signal.c
> index abd7638..a7f97fa 100644
> --- a/support/signal.c
> +++ b/support/signal.c
> @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ wait_for_any (signal_info** signals, int count, int
> *currfd,
>                         ptv = &tv;
>                 }
>                 r = poll (fd_structs, count, timeout);
> -       } while (keep_trying (r) && !shutting_down ());
> +       } while (keep_trying (r) /*&& !shutting_down ()*/);
> 
>         idx = -1;
>         if (r == 0)
> 
> Commenting out the delegate call cures the crash for me.
> 
> I reopened bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592981 with these traces, but
> as no-one has commented on it in a couple of weeks I'm highlighting it here too.
> 
> - Dick
> 
> 
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