Upgrading JBossWeb causes the JVM to crash due to JBoss Native incompatibility

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We put the patch JBPAPP-3434 in production, and JBoss refused to start.
  • The JVM crashing with the following error in the fatal error log:
    #
    # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
    #
    #  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x3d7f8a39, pid=1704, tid=3484
    #
    # JRE version: 6.0_18-b07
    # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (16.0-b13 mixed mode windows-x86 )
    # Problematic frame:
    # C  [libapr-1.dll+0x8a39]
    #
    # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
    #   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
    # The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
    # See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
    #
    
    ---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------
    
    Current thread (0x33d70800):  JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_native, id=3484, stack(0x34270000,0x342c0000)]
    
    siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000018
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.0 with patch JBPAPP-3434 applied.

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