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terminate called after throwing an instance of 'PollableDescriptorException'

Marcin
Explorer

I keep getting the following error in crash logs on splunk-3.4.12-69236 64 bit. Anyone has any idea what is causing it?

Backtrace: [0x0000003FB5A31BF0] abort + 272 (/lib64/libc.so.6) [0x0000000000BACEE8] ZN9_gnu_cxx27__verbose_terminate_handlerEv + 200 (splunkd) [0x0000000000BA4236] ZN10_cxxabiv111__terminateEPFvvE + 6 (splunkd) [0x0000000000BA4263] ? (splunkd) [0x0000000000BA4363] ? (splunkd) [0x000000000092D1CC] _ZNK18PollableDescriptor11setNonblockEb + 124 (splunkd) [0x00000000009134F6] _ZN8PolledFd9after_addEv + 38 (splunkd) [0x0000000000915CBA] _ZN15PolledFdManager12when_expiredEv + 634 (splunkd) [0x0000000000912975] _ZN9EventLoop30recursiveRunZeroLengthTimeoutsEP7Timeout + 133 (splunkd) [0x00000000009150AB] _ZN9EventLoop3runEv + 491 (splunkd) [0x00000000009473C9] _ZN6Thread8callMainEPv + 41 (splunkd) [0x0000003FB6206307] ? (/lib64/libpthread.so.0) [0x0000003FB5AD1DED] clone + 109 (/lib64/libc.so.6) Linux / sarcastic / 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 / #1 SMP Wed Nov 12 09:19:49 EST 2008 / x86_64 Last few lines of stderr (may contain info on assertion failure, but also could be old): Ctl-C signal received terminate called after throwing an instance of 'PollableDescriptorException' what(): can't F_GETFL Ctl-C signal received terminate called after throwing an instance of 'PollableDescriptorException' what(): can't F_GETFL

/etc/redhat-release: CentOS release 5.2 (Final) glibc version: 2.5 glibc release: stable

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dwaddle
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I'd recommend you open a support case on this one. Backtraces can be difficult to debug without more information (like the code).

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