[jboss-dev] Possible blocker with jboss-cl 2.2.0.Alpha1 [WAS]: Hudson Jobs Hanging

Jaikiran Pai jpai at redhat.com
Tue Feb 9 05:17:11 EST 2010


Hmm, poof part in the logs is misleading then :) I mean it should not 
have been a NCDFE on classes from rt.jar. And then again, the difference 
in behavior between the jbcl versions.

-Jaikiran
Carlo de Wolf wrote:
> This should have nothing to do at all with jboss-cl. In essence it's the 
> following scenario that fails:
>
> - request comes in
> - undeploy request comes in
> - container blocks undeploy
> - response goes out the container
> - container unblocks and undeploys
> - response tries to get out of the invoker => poof
>
> Carlo
>
> On 02/06/2010 06:40 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, Jaikiran. I'm forwarding this to the jboss-dev list for 
>> greater visibility.
>>
>> The EJB3 team is seeing consistent failures where a server thread is 
>> unable to load classes from rt.jar. These occur in a test where a 
>> remote client makes requests against a service that is concurrently 
>> being undeployed. Failure is quite similar to what is seen at 
>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-7688 and previously mentioned 
>> on this list.[1]
>>
>> I've elevated JBAS-7688 to Blocker; we'll have to get comfortable 
>> early next week that this isn't due to the jboss-cl 2.2.0.Alpha1 
>> upgrade, fix jboss-cl 2.2.0, or roll back AS trunk to 2.0.8.GA.
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-development/2010-February/015693.html 
>>
>>
>> On 02/06/2010 09:24 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>>     
>>> I switched one of the jobs (which i have been using for testing) on Mike
>>>   to 2.0.8.GA of jbcl and haven't seen this hang in those. However, the
>>> other job which is using 2.2.0.Alpha1 is consistently hanging with the
>>> same exception being thrown. I have tried to reproduce this locally, but
>>> haven't been able to do so (i.e. the test runs fine with 2.2.0.Alpha1 on
>>> my local setup).
>>>
>>> The exception stacktrace (as Carlo posted earlier) seems to be
>>> originating from a remoting thread which is doing some marshalling and
>>> running into CNFE (all these CNFE classes so far have been the ones
>>> residing in rt.jar). I took a thread dump of the server, at the time
>>> when Mike was hung during this testcase - couldn't find anything useful
>>> in there. Perhaps, i should be taking a thread dump of the JVM on the
>>> client (the JUnit testcase), to see what it is waiting on. At the same
>>> time, David mentions[1] that:
>>>
>>> "I hypothesize that the classloader is (sometimes) being destroyed
>>> before the thread gets going, causing it to be unable to load anything
>>> at all."
>>>
>>> I'll see if i can figure out:
>>>
>>> 1) Whether that statement applies to this testcase too
>>> 2) Why this happens specifically in this testcase
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-development/2010-February/015694.html 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> -Jaikiran
>>> Brian Stansberry wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 02/04/2010 12:18 PM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Mike is running into this again
>>>>> http://mike.lab.bos.redhat.com:8380/hudson/job/EJB3_1-1.0.3-JBoss-AS-6.x-tests-ejb3/3/console 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-1982 has linked
>>>>> JBKERNEL-86 as one of the problems. JBKERNEL-86 is marked as fixed in
>>>>> 2.2.0.alpha-4 of MC kernel. The current AS trunk has 2.2.0-alpha-5. 
>>>>> But
>>>>> we are still seeing the same hang. So i guess there's more to it.
>>>>> Looking at the logs (attached) i don't see an explicit OOM, but i 
>>>>> do see
>>>>> signs of it (like CNFE on a com.sun.* class after numerous deploys).
>>>>>           
>>>> On the face of it that sounds like a different problem. Occam's razor
>>>> say's it's not, but a CNFE seems like a different beast than a memory
>>>> leak.
>>>>
>>>> Possibly the CNFE is due to the jboss-cl upgrade to 2.2.0.Alpha1? See
>>>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-7688 for another issue where
>>>> after that change classes in rt.jar weren't available.
>>>>
>>>> The AS should run fine w/ it's jboss-cl moved back to 2.0.8.GA, so
>>>> this theory is testable.
>>>>         
>>     
>
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