WebCenter Sites on WebSphere Crashes with General Protection Fault (gpf) (Doc ID 2018653.1)

Last updated on MARCH 27, 2023

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Symptoms

WebSphere with IBM JDK crashes with gpf (General Protection Fault).

The Javacore shows:

Cause of thread dump : Dump Event "gpf" (00002000) received

Date: 2015/04/28 at 12:58:28
Operating System : AIX 6.1
Java version : J2RE 6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc64-64 build jvmap6460-20080816_22093
Free Java heap size: 1.88 GB  
Allocated Java heap size: 8.21 GB

Current Thread :  
  Thread Name: WebContainer : 108
  State: Runnable
  Java Stack:
       at java/lang/StringBuffer.insert(StringBuffer.java:519)
       at org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/ClassFile.addProblemMethod(ClassFile.java:1169)
       at org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/ast/AbstractMethodDeclaration.generateCode(AbstractMethodDeclaration.java:170)
       at org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/ast/TypeDeclaration.generateCode(TypeDeclaration.java:533)
       at org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/ast/TypeDeclaration.generateCode(TypeDeclaration.java:584)
       at org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/ast/CompilationUnitDeclaration.generateCode(CompilationUnitDeclaration.java:214)
       at org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/Compiler.process(Compiler.java:600)
       at org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:411)
       at com/ibm/ws/jsp/translator/compiler/JDTCompiler.compile(JDTCompiler.java:166)
       at com/ibm/ws/jsp/translator/utils/JspTranslatorUtil.translateJspAndCompile(JspTranslatorUtil.java:157)
       at com/ibm/ws/jsp/webcontainerext/AbstractJSPExtensionServletWrapper.translateJsp(AbstractJSPExtensionServletWrapper.java:557)
...

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