https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=961274 seemed to provide a resolution...? On 12/17/2012 3:53 PM, Vít Špinka wrote: > Hi list, > have anyone seen something like this? > > We have a Perl+C application connecting to Oracle; it uses DBD::Oracle > and OCI (although it does not seem to actually use OCI in this case). It > runs more or less fine on Linux, Windows etc. And if it crashes, it has > signal handlers installed to create a stack trace, collect various > diagnostics etc. So far so good. > > However, on Solaris on Sparc, we on some machines get instead just > short error messsage like "KPEDBG_HDL_POP_FCPTR" and then the program > dies, without invoking any of the signal handlers. And truss shows it > actually got some signal that caused it to do this. > My guess is that this is kpeDbg() function that can be sometimes seen on > other platforms when the crash is in Oracle libraries - it prints a > neatly formatted call stack. > > So the question is - have you ever seen something like this? Do you know > of any way how to get at least some information as to nature of the > issue? E.g. let the signal get to the Perl+C program or get the call stack. > > Version info: Instant Client 11.2.0.3, database: 10.2.0.5, 11.2.? > Tried: adding bequeath_detach=yes and DIAG_SIGHANDLER_ENABLED=FALSE to > sqlnet.ora, but to no avail. > > TIA > Vit -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l