Hi all,
Am getting the below error for a job that is run in our system.
error code: 114, pc=0, call=1, seg=0
114 Attempt to access item beyond bounds of memory (Signal 11)
This job uses a cobol program and as far as I know, the problem is related to this cobol program.
What does this mean and how to handle this error. Kindly advise.
man 7 signal gives you a handy list of the meaning of various signals.
Signal Value Action Comment
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SIGHUP 1 Term Hangup detected on controlling terminal
or death of controlling process
SIGINT 2 Term Interrupt from keyboard
SIGQUIT 3 Core Quit from keyboard
SIGILL 4 Core Illegal Instruction
SIGABRT 6 Core Abort signal from abort(3)
SIGFPE 8 Core Floating point exception
SIGKILL 9 Term Kill signal
SIGSEGV 11 Core Invalid memory reference
SIGPIPE 13 Term Broken pipe: write to pipe with no
readers
SIGALRM 14 Term Timer signal from alarm(2)
SIGTERM 15 Term Termination signal
SIGUSR1 30,10,16 Term User-defined signal 1
SIGUSR2 31,12,17 Term User-defined signal 2
SIGCHLD 20,17,18 Ign Child stopped or terminated
SIGCONT 19,18,25 Cont Continue if stopped
SIGSTOP 17,19,23 Stop Stop process
SIGTSTP 18,20,24 Stop Stop typed at tty
SIGTTIN 21,21,26 Stop tty input for background process
SIGTTOU 22,22,27 Stop tty output for background process
If you look through it you will see that signal 11 is SIGSEGV which expands to the slightly more comprehensible "SIGnal SEGmentation Violation" which means that a program tried to access an area of memory it was not allocated. The OS considers this to be bad form and kills the process dropping a core if cores are enabled.
If this program is supplied by a vendor, open a ticket and offer to send in the core.
If not, provide the core to your developers.