TCP connection timeouts throw exceptions and reconnecting fails

Squider

The bug has been discussed here:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3047645&forum_id=492606

Might be linked to:
http://www.zeroc.com/forums/help-center/2718-caught-unknown-exception-program-exit.html

matthew

Thanks for reporting the bug. Examining the stack trace I find:

Catchpoint 2 (exception thrown) 
0xb7770765 in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 
(gdb) backtrace 
#0 0xb7770765 in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 
#1 0xb7e2d9db in Ice::ConnectionI::sendRequest (this=0x82c8fe0, out=0xbfacd0d4, compress=false, response=true) at ConnectionI.cpp:467 

That corresponds to:

    if(_exception.get())
    {       
        //  
        // If the connection is closed before we even have a chance
        // to send our request, we always try to send the request
        // again.
        //
        throw LocalExceptionWrapper(*_exception.get(), true);
    }       

Then:

#2 0xb7e329e9 in IceInternal::ConnectionRequestHandler::sendRequest (this=0x82c2468, out=0xbfacd0d4) at ConnectionRequestHandler.cpp:74 
#3 0xb7ebcb71 in IceInternal::Outgoing::invoke (this=0xbfacd0d4) at Outgoing.cpp:177 
#4 0x0810194b in IceDelegateM::Murmur::ServerAuthenticator::authenticate (this=0x824e120, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], 
__context=0x0) at Murmur.cpp:7249 
#5 0x0810f79c in IceProxy::Murmur::ServerAuthenticator::authenticate (this=0x82c3f18, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], __ctx=0x0) 
at Murmur.cpp:5228 

Frame 5 is executing in a code block similar to:

        try
        {
            ....
        }
        catch(const ::IceInternal::LocalExceptionWrapper& __ex)
        {
            __handleExceptionWrapperRelaxed(__delBase, __ex, 0, __cnt);
        }
        catch(const ::Ice::LocalException& __ex)
        {
            __handleException(__delBase, __ex, 0, __cnt);
        }

Obviously, the exception should be caught. If it is not, its a compiler bug.

What would be most useful would be a test case without all of the murmur infrastructure.

benoit

Hi,

After some investigation, it turns out that this problem is caused by code built with the GCC -fvisibility=hidden. This is causing exception handling issues as described on the GNU GCC page here: Visibility - GCC Wiki

Building the Mumble code without this option solves the problem.

Cheers,
Benoit.