[Zope-dev] Error code 4?

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:35:32 +0100


Alex Kelly writes:
 > I have been working on fixing our "Error code: 11" problems, however we 
 > also have about the same amount of "Error Code: 4" entries in our 
 > debug.log.  Does anyone know what that is, and what I can do to clear 
 > that one up too?
This is a SIGILL (illegal instruction).

Something in your Zope system behaves very badly.
Probably it writes uncontrolled into the stack area and hits a
function return address.

I once tracked down such a problem with "purify".
It has been a tedious process because "purify" slowed Zope down
by about a factor of about 100...


Dieter