EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

[Prakash Mani - Attur]

Below error occurs in my Tomcat. Also when I run Tomcat as service, system error out as 'Access is denied'

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x100045c7, pid=1072, tid=3044
#
# JRE version: 6.0_31-b05
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (20.6-b01 mixed mode, sharing windows-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [tcnative-1.dll+0x45c7]

[Zeeshan Sheikh]

It basically crashing with segfault in the JVM code. ExceptionCode=0xc0000005 means segfault. I would suggest upgrading JVM to latest version.

Hope this helps.

[Tim Holloway]

Zeeshan Sheikh wrote:It basically crashing with segfault in the JVM code. ExceptionCode=0xc0000005 means segfault. I would suggest upgrading JVM to latest version.

Hope this helps.

Or sometimes a version that's only slightly older, if the latest and greatest version isn't an option.

This error is always due to a bug in the JVM (or in native classes), never in Java code itself, and fortunately, bugs like this tend to move around, so any randomly-selected alternative JVM version will usually make it go away. Pretty much any JVM will have something that will crash it, but as long as that something isn't one of the somethings you need, it all works out.