Re: Strange intermittent LuaJIT errors (likely my fault)

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Mike Pall <mikelu-1205@mike.de> wrote:
>> Alexander Gladysh wrote:
>>> Meanwhile, it looks like the bug is deterministically reproduced on a
>>> fixed n-th run of the suite (this is with somewhat modified code).
>>>
>>> For example, on one of the machines, bug is triggered exactly on 111th run.
>>>
>>> It seems that some state is kept somewhere between luajit2 runs. Any
>>> ideas *where*?
>>
>> Well, it doesn't. But the ASLR in the kernel may create similar
>> address layouts from time to time, especially on x86. What happens
>> if you turn ASLR off?
>
> I've got the same error on each run (guess I'm lucky today). With ASLR
> on, errors are different, and majority of run do not fail.

I left ASLR off on that machine (that's not a production one), in hope
to preserve this condition. Mike, please tell me if you want me to try
to run any diagnostics, or to get a shell there to try something
yourself.

Thanks,
Alexander.