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Tomcat thread gets stuck at AccessController.getStackAccessControlContext

685037May 11 2012 — edited May 11 2012
We're noticing a very peculiar problem on Win 7 / 64 bit / JDK 6_30 where a servlet tries to spawn a new thread but gets stuck in the new Thread's constructor. It happens consistently on 1 machine but not on other apparently identical setups. Any help would be appreciated.

(I hope this is the right forum for this error report)

Thread dump below:
"HTTP-NIO-Worker-1-2" prio=6 tid=0x000000000712c000 nid=0x1b50 runnable [0x00000000159cd000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
                at java.security.AccessController.getStackAccessControlContext(Native Method)
                at java.security.AccessController.getContext(AccessController.java:484)
                at java.lang.Thread.init(Thread.java:358)
                at java.lang.Thread.<init>(Thread.java:488)
                ... .snip . ..
                at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:641)
                at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:304)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:684)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:471)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:402)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:329)
                ... .snip . ..
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
                at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:462)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
                at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:100)
                at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
                at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:405)
                at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProcessor.process(Http11NioProcessor.java:313)
                at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:515)
                at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:1544)
                - locked <0x00000007822cfa10> (a org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioChannel)
                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
                at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
While searching on Google we found a few other recent incidents but none of them seem to have found a resolution:
- http://scn.sap.com/thread/2071927
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/js5CeRWLQZ0/6IbZMM5SrmsJ

There are also quite a few old reports about JVMs crashing at this line but on older JDK 6 builds:
- http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=109493&action=edit
- https://issues.jboss.org/secure/attachment/12333561/hs_err_pid8616.log?_sscc=t
- http://www.coderanch.com/t/449308/Tomcat/Tomcat-crash-when-running-native
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