PDF report : glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer

Question

We are having an running a PDF report concurrent program - After a while it errors out with the following message.
emsg:was terminated by signal 6
Enter Password:
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0847b6d8 ***
Report Builder: Release 10.1.2.3.0 - Production on Fri Jan 15 13:22:11 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Program was terminated by signal 6
Concurrent Manager encountered an error while running Oracle*Report for your concurrent request 4459737.
Review your concurrent request log and/or report output file for more detailed information.
Executing request completion options...
We see this issue in all the cloned instances. In Production system also it errors out with a different error message as below.
emsg:was terminated by signal 6
Enter Password:
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb68b6745, pid=21709, tid=2377784224
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.4.2_14-b05 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libca.so.0+0x13745] cadckgt+0xa5
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid21709.log
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
I ran ACTIVE USERS with PDF output option. That completed successfully though.
Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Hi,
We are having an running a PDF report concurrent program - After a while it errors out with the following message.Is this a standard or custom concurrent program?
Do you get any error if you change the report type to Text/PostScript?
emsg:was terminated by signal 6
Enter Password:
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0847b6d8 ***
Report Builder: Release 10.1.2.3.0 - Production on Fri Jan 15 13:22:11 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Program was terminated by signal 6
Concurrent Manager encountered an error while running Oracle*Report for your concurrent request 4459737.
Review your concurrent request log and/or report output file for more detailed information.
Executing request completion options...I would suggest you enable trace/debug and see if more details about the error are collected in the logs.
We see this issue in all the cloned instances. In Production system also it errors out with a different error message as below.
emsg:was terminated by signal 6
Enter Password:
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb68b6745, pid=21709, tid=2377784224
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.4.2_14-b05 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libca.so.0+0x13745] cadckgt+0xa5
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid21709.logCan you find any details about the error in this log file?
I ran ACTIVE USERS with PDF output option. That completed successfully though. Does this mean that the issue is only with custom PDF concurrent programs?
Regards,
Hussein