Netbeans crashes with JDK8

[gerard ziemski]

We (Oracle) have our own issue filed addressing this problem: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025568

In summary - NetBeans with JDK8 crashes here on Ubuntu 13.4

GDB session info:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffac9e6700 (LWP 28401)]
0x00007fff9c539880 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fff9c539880 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007ffff73dbd92 in __nptl_deallocate_tsd () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#2 0x00007ffff73dbf9c in start_thread () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#3 0x00007ffff78eee1d in clone () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
(gdb) info threads
  Id Target Id Frame
  37 Thread 0x7fff9408a700 (LWP 9602) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  36 Thread 0x7fff9b6b1700 (LWP 9599) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  35 Thread 0x7fff9448b700 (LWP 9597) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  34 Thread 0x7fff9468c700 (LWP 9596) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  33 Thread 0x7fff94c96700 (LWP 9595) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  30 Thread 0x7fff96f1d700 (LWP 9592) "gdbus" 0x00007ffff74c73cd in poll () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  29 Thread 0x7fff9771e700 (LWP 9591) "dconf worker" 0x00007ffff74c73cd in poll ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  28 Thread 0x7fffa8295700 (LWP 9590) "java" 0x00007ffff7bcbcbd in read ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  27 Thread 0x7fffa85ad700 (LWP 9589) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  26 Thread 0x7fffa87ae700 (LWP 9588) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  25 Thread 0x7fffa89af700 (LWP 9587) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  24 Thread 0x7fffa8bb0700 (LWP 9586) "java" 0x00007fffe10102a0 in ?? ()
  23 Thread 0x7fffa8db1700 (LWP 9585) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  22 Thread 0x7fffa91b2700 (LWP 9584) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
* 21 Thread 0x7fffa9f20700 (LWP 9582) "java" 0x00007fffa1ee7880 in ?? ()
  20 Thread 0x7fffaa121700 (LWP 9581) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  19 Thread 0x7fffaa522700 (LWP 9580) "java" 0x00007ffff74c73cd in poll () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  18 Thread 0x7fffaab34700 (LWP 9579) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  17 Thread 0x7fffab1bf700 (LWP 9578) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  16 Thread 0x7fffab3c0700 (LWP 9577) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  15 Thread 0x7fffab5c1700 (LWP 9576) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  14 Thread 0x7fffd8e82700 (LWP 9575) "java" 0x00007ffff74c73cd in poll () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  13 Thread 0x7fffda0e7700 (LWP 9574) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  12 Thread 0x7fffda60f700 (LWP 9573) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  11 Thread 0x7fffda810700 (LWP 9572) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  10 Thread 0x7fffda911700 (LWP 9571) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  9 Thread 0x7fffdaa12700 (LWP 9570) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  8 Thread 0x7fffdac13700 (LWP 9569) "java" 0x00007ffff7bcaf80 in sem_wait ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  7 Thread 0x7fffdb4f5700 (LWP 9568) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  6 Thread 0x7fffdb6f6700 (LWP 9567) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  5 Thread 0x7fffdb7f7700 (LWP 9566) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc905e in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  4 Thread 0x7ffff428a700 (LWP 9565) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  3 Thread 0x7ffff438b700 (LWP 9564) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  2 Thread 0x7ffff61e7700 (LWP 9563) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc8ca4 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
  1 Thread 0x7ffff7fe1740 (LWP 9559) "java" 0x00007ffff7bc6218 in pthread_join ()
   from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0

Testing matrix:

Ubuntu JDK results

12.04 JDK7 OK
12.04 JDK8 OK
13.04 JDK7 OK
13.04 JDK8 CRASH

For reference the command I used to run was: ./netbeans-7.4rc2/bin/netbeans --jdkhome ~/Desktop/work/jdk1.8.0_b108/ -J-Xcheck:jni -J-Xint

You can grab JDK8 from https://jdk8.java.net/archive/index.html
You can grab Netbeans from https://netbeans.org/community/releases/74/

1) 'lsb_release -rd' returns "13.04"
2) 'apt-cache policy pkgname' returns "N: Unable to locate package pkgname"
3) Netbeans to launch without crash
4) Netbeans crashes

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[gerard ziemski (gerard-ziemski)]

It seems that the issue was resolved in Ubuntu 13.10 Beta 2 available from http://releases.ubuntu.com/saucy/

This issue can be now closed.

[gerard ziemski (gerard-ziemski)]

I'm re-opening this issue as it still exists in the latest 13.10 with the latest NetBeans 7.4 (final) - it crashes about 50% of the time.

[gerard ziemski (gerard-ziemski)]

A workaround is to change CPU affinity to something low, like 1:

taskset 0x1 ~/Desktop/work/netbeans-7.4/bin/netbeans --jdkhome ~/Desktop/work/jdk1.8.0/ -J-showversion -J-Xcheck:jni -J-Xint

[Quinn Balazs (qbalazs)]

Bug #1241101 may or may not be relevant here. If it is, the JDK isn't at fault, it seems to be more of a GTK+ Unity Global Menu issue.

[gerard ziemski (gerard-ziemski)]

I've tried the workarounds from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/java-common/+bug/1241101 and unfortunately none of them help. This one seems to be a different issue.

[gerard ziemski (gerard-ziemski)]

Thread 22 (Thread 0x7fffa87ff700 (LWP 7003)):
#0 0x00007fff8891f320 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007ffff7bc4d72 in __nptl_deallocate_tsd () at pthread_create.c:157
#2 0x00007ffff7bc4f7c in start_thread (arg=0x7fffa87ff700) at pthread_create.c:318
#3 0x00007ffff74d49cd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:113

[gerard ziemski (gerard-ziemski)]

ibpthread.so exists at: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.17.so
debug libpthread.so exists at: /usr/lib/debug/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.17.so

According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/i386/libc6-amd64/filelist libpthread is part of libc6 (ie. [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/eglibc_2.17.orig.tar.xz])

The file pthread_create.c:157 shows:

156: /* Call the user-provided destructor. */
157: __pthread_keys[idx].destr (data);

[gerard ziemski (gerard-ziemski)]

After obtaining eglibc-2.17

    svn co svn://svn.eglibc.org/branches/eglibc-2_17 eglibc-2.17

modifying it to show who calls "pthread_key_create" with non NULL destructor, building it and using it to run the example we get:

>>>>> pthread_key_create pthread: 0x7f0378fdc700, destr: 0x7f034d4ab320
Obtained 20 stack frames.
/home/gerard/Desktop/work/eglibc-2.17/build/nptl/libpthread.so.0(+0xceaa) [0x7f03c3c81eaa]
/home/gerard/Desktop/work/eglibc-2.17/build/nptl/libpthread.so.0(__pthread_key_create+0x47) [0x7f03c3c81f47]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x88301) [0x7f034d4d0301]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_private_get+0x9) [0x7f034d4d0749]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_slice_alloc+0x1d) [0x7f034d4ab94d]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_hash_table_new_full+0x1e) [0x7f034d47fc6e]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_quark_from_static_string+0x105) [0x7f034d49fbc5]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(+0xb37c) [0x7f034d75437c]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf856) [0x7f03c468a856]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf910) [0x7f03c468a910]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0x13fdf) [0x7f03c468efdf]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf6e6) [0x7f03c468a6e6]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0x13809) [0x7f03c468e809]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2(+0x1026) [0x7f03c3e93026]
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2(+0xf6e6) [0x7f03c468a6e6]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2(+0x163c) [0x7f03c3e9363c]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2(dlopen+0x31) [0x7f03c3e930c1]
/home/gerard/Desktop/work/jdks/jdk8/build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug/jdk/lib/amd64/libawt_xawt.so(+0x4dd89) [0x7f03a4c1dd89]
/home/gerard/Desktop/work/jdks/jdk8/build/linux-x86_64-normal-server-slowdebug/jdk/lib/amd64/libawt_xawt.so(Java_sun_awt_UNIXToolkit_check_1gtk+0x1a) [0x7f03a4c1912b]
[0x7f03ad0298dc]
>>>>> pthread_key_t: 2

then later when thread 0x7f0378fdc700 goes away:

>>>>> __nptl_deallocate_tsd
>>>>> pthread: 0x7f0378fdc700
>>>>> HERE1
>>>>> data: 0x7f03500008c0
>>>>> __pthread_keys[idx].destr: 0x7f03c3e932c0
>>>>> HERE2
>>>>> HERE1
>>>>> data: 0x7f03500f5700
>>>>> __pthread_keys[idx].destr: 0x7f034d4ab320

which ends in a crash:

# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f034d4ab320, pid=24055, tid=139652891526912 (0x7F0378FDC700)

We clearly show that the destructor that crashes (i.e. 0x7f034d4ab320) is not created by us, but by Ubuntu itself (ie. g_quark_from_static_string), so this proves it's not Java, but Ubuntu itself who seems responsible.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.