Customer is reporting multiple java crashes (approx. 5 per day) on a SunFire
880 running at their production site. The customer is running with jre 1.3.1_03. The pstack information for these crashes shows that the crashes
occur with a strange invalid signal number such as:
--- called from signal handler with signal -21027840 (SIG Unknown) ---

One of the sample hs_err files follow:

Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0xfedb63a4
Function name=JVM_DoPrivileged
Library=/usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so

Current Java thread:
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:143)
        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:460
)
        at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.j
ava:701)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)

Dynamic libraries:
0x10000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/bin/../bin/sparc/native_threads/java
0xff360000 /usr/lib/lwp/libthread.so.1
0xff390000 /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
0xff280000 /usr/lib/libc.so.1
0xff350000 /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-880/lib/libc_psr.so.1
0xfec00000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so
0xff230000 /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1
0xff200000 /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
0xfeb00000 /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
0xff1d0000 /usr/lib/libm.so.1
0xff260000 /usr/lib/libw.so.1
0xff1a0000 /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
0xff180000 /usr/lib/librt.so.1
0xff160000 /usr/lib/libaio.so.1
0xff120000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/native_threads/libhpi.so
0xfebc0000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/libverify.so
0xfeac0000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/libjava.so
0xfea90000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/libzip.so
0xfb4d0000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/libnet.so
0xfb4b0000 /usr/lib/nss_nis.so.1
0xfb490000 /usr/lib/straddr.so
0xfb410000 /opt/objectivity/solaris7/lib/liboojava.so
0xb5600000 /opt/objectivity/solaris7/lib/liboo.6.1.so
0xb5500000 /opt/objectivity/solaris7/lib/liboo_co.6.1.so
0xb73d0000 /opt/objectivity/solaris7/lib/libooseccl.so
0xb73b0000 /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.1
0xfb4f0000 /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
0xb7150000 /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
0xb7120000 /usr/lib/nss_files.so.1
0xb6fd0000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/libawt.so
0xb3400000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/lib/sparc/motif21/libmawt.so
0xb6c30000 /usr/j2re1_3_1_03/bin/../lib/sparc/libmlib_image.so
0xb2880000 /usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.4
0xb6a90000 /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
0xb6f90000 /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
0xb6c10000 /usr/openwin/lib/libXtst.so.1
0xb3300000 /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
0xb6860000 /usr/openwin/lib/libSM.so.6
0xb6830000 /usr/openwin/lib/libICE.so.6
0xb65d0000 /usr/openwin/lib/libdga.so.1

Local Time = Wed Oct 30 14:00:00 2002
Elapsed Time = 102626
#
# HotSpot Virtual Machine Error : 11
# Error ID : 4F530E43505002BD 01
# Please report this error at
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.3.1_03-b03 mixed mode)
#

Please note that crashes occur within different function names and different java threads.

Please see the bug comments for the location of the crash data collected so
far.