Problem Note 33403: Segmentation violation and bridge stub errors on AIX
When running large SAS jobs on an AIX system, you might receive segmentation violation (SEGV) errors, bridge stub errors, or both.
Here is one example of an error that you might see:
Unable to transcode from UTF8 into sas session encoding.
Segmentation Violation In Task [ DAFAPPL ] Fault Occurred at [0x9000000185086a0(?)]
Task Traceback
slxiorl+0x38 -- bridge stub
pscodot+0x38 -- bridge stub
pscgo+0x38 -- bridge stub
afbase+0x38 -- bridge stub
_uc_trampoline+0xfffffffffffffffc
NOTE: SAS Server: Authorization terminating...
NOTE: Ofactory : _term
NOTE: TERM task=2 factory=4917 oid=10601
ERROR: Generic critical error.
Here is another error example:
Segmentation Violation In Task [ DATASTEP ]
Fault Occurred at [bcopy+0x118]
Task Traceback
bcopy+0x118
dsxxexc+0x38 -- bridge stub
_uc_trampoline+0xfffffffffffffffc
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
Running large jobs on AIX might result in segmentation violation and bridge stub errors.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2009-04-02 18:12:01 |
| Date Created: | 2008-09-24 10:11:57 |
