Invalid memory access of location in Java

Question

I\'ve been working on a Java project for year. My code had been working fine for months. A few days ago I upgraded the Java SDK to the newest version 1.6.0_26 on my Mac (Sno

Answer 1

I just came across this situation and it turned out to be related to a piece of code that was serializing a JSON object with a cyclic reference to itself. I removed the cycle and the error went away. I suspect this is related to a memory overflow error that is now handled differently by newer JVMs on Mac OSX. In this case, I was running Mac OSX 10.7.

For completeness the errors I was receiving were:

Invalid access of stack red zone 0x10e586d30 rip=0x10daabba6
Bus error: 10

And:

Invalid memory access of location 0x10b655890 rip=0x10a8baba6
Segmentation fault: 11

Answer 2

Please check if /etc/hosts is empty and verify that it include these configurations ：

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost 
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

Answer 3

Also verify that you are building the GUI on the event dispatch thread and never updating a GUI component from any other thread.

Related errors are notoriously hard to reproduce, but the change associated with altered timing is suggestive.

Answer 4

When a JVM starts crashing like that, it is a sign that something has broken the JVM's execution model.

Does your application include any native code? Does it use any 3rd-party libraries with native code components? If neither is true, then the chances are that this is a bug in the Apple port of the JVM. It could be a JIT compiler bug, or a bug in some JVM native code library.

What can you do about a bug like that?

Not a lot.

• Reduce your application by progressively chopping out bits until you have a small testcase that exhibits the problem.
• Based on the testcase, see if there's some empirical way to avoid the problem.
• Submit a bug report to Apple with the testcase.