Crash dump OpenJDK exception happened outside interpreter, nmethods and vtable stubs

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Environment

  • OpenJDK

Issue

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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  Internal Error (sharedRuntime.cpp:833), pid=2568, tid=3428
#  fatal error: exception happened outside interpreter, nmethods and vtable stubs at pc 0x0000000000ff4750
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_31-b13) (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.31-b07 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)

Resolution

The permanent solution for this is upgrading the JVM.
However, a possible workaround is to add the -XX:-UseAESIntrinsics flag to the JVM.

Diagnostic Steps

Verify the crash file, i.e. hs_err_pid file, which usually is on the directory where JBoss EAP is running.

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