Mysterious reboot involving Java...

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 06:19:03 +0200, John W <jwdevel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a strange issue where when I run certain Java programs my
> machine will spontaneously reboot. No useful log messages are produced
> that I have found.
>
> I found some suspiciously similar issues [1] [2] reported by others,
> but I am having a tough time determining if it has been fixed in my
> version of the kernel.
> I found reference to a patch [3] but that is only for FreeBSD 10.
>
> I'm on an older build: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #2 r253726: Mon Jul 29
> 19:46:55 PDT 2013
>
> This happens when I recompile OpenJDK, and also when doing some image
> processing with JAlbum.
>
> I'd be happy to update my system, but I'd like to have some confidence
> that I'll be getting a fix for this issue before I spend some hours on
> that task.
>
> Does anyone have any tips for tracking this down, or familiarity with
> this issue?
>
> Thanks
> -John
>
> [1]  
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2014-January/010481.html
> [2]  
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce/zM7XMcZiUBg
>  :  "As part of the Jenkins setup, Craig Rodrigues encountered
> problems with running Java on FreeBSD 9.2 and FreeBSD 10.0. Both
> problems stemmed from changes to the FreeBSD Virtual Memory (VM)
> subsystem."
> [3]  
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2014-March/055683.html


Is the system panicing? If yes, do you get a kernel dump?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

Ronald.