Customer is experiencing frequent crashes in their application using JVM 1.3.1_04.

The hotspot log shows the following stack trace:

Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at PC=0x802820e
Function name=(N/A)
Library=D:\Marimba\CASTAN~1\lib\jre\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll

NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error
      just occurred. Please refer to release documentation for possible
      reason and solutions.



Current Java thread:
        at java.net.InetAddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
        at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressFromNameService(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.InetAddress.getByName(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.marimba.tools.ldap.TimedSocket.<init>(TimedSocket.java:25)
        at com.marimba.tools.ldap.LDAPSocketFactory.createSocket(LDAPSocketFact
ory.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:199)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:113)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2384)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:244)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.ja
va:79)

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One such crash has the following stack trace (Dr Watson dump - opened with
WinDbg) for the offending thread :


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jvm!oopDesc::follow_contents+0x3
jvm!MarkSweep::follow_root+0x22
jvm!chunk_oops_do+0x21
jvm!HandleArea::oops_do+0x14
jvm!Thread::oops_do+0x21
jvm!JavaThread::oops_do+0x14
jvm!Threads::oops_do+0x16
jvm!MarkSweep::mark_sweep_phase1+0x37
jvm!MarkSweep::invoke_at_safepoint+0x133
jvm!VM_MarkSweep::doit+0x13
jvm!VM_Operation::evaluate+0x17
jvm!VMThread::evaluate_operation+0x1a
jvm!VMThread::loop+0x129
jvm!VMThread::run+0x52
jvm!_start+0xb
MSVCRT!_beginthreadex+0xca
KERNEL32!BaseThreadStart+0x52

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