Segmentation Violation In Task [FORMAT ]

[jdsignature2009]

I am running into a issues as stated bellow:
Can anybody here shed some light for me? what possibly might cause this problem?

Segmentation Violation In Task [ FORMAT ]
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sas:do_traceback+0xd1
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sas:tktracex+0x1c
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sas:ht_handle_program_fault+0x217
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sas:catchpgm+0x58
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/tkmk.so:bkt_signal_handler+0x1c9
/lib/amd64/libc.so.1:0xd00b6
/lib/amd64/libc.so.1:0xc53a2
/lib/amd64/libc.so.1:_memcpy+0xd2 [ Signal 11 (SEGV)]
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sase7l:ylwobj+0xb19
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sase7l:e7lmwt+0x931
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sase7:e7lclos+0x666
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sasyh:ylclos3+0x5b8
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sasyh:ylclose+0x66
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sasforma:sasforma+0x452
/ap/p/sas_mod004/sas/SASFoundation/9.2/sasexe/sas:vvtentr+0xe9
/lib/amd64/libc.so.1:0x4ef60
0xfffffd7ffbdfe2e4


SAS WTABORT (FORMAT) The SAS System has detected an abort condition. An Exception occurred during wthtrm().
Please Contact Technical Support.


Tasks

[MAIN ] [WAITING ] pri[ 5] reb[FED8E590] WC[0] WN[1]
[IDLETASK] [READY ] pri[ 9] reb[FED8E590]
[EVENTTSK] [WAITING ] pri[ 0] reb[FED8E590] WC[0] WN[1]
[sasxkern] [WAITING ] pri[ 3] reb[FED8E590] WC[0] WN[1]
[Session ] [WAITING ] pri[ 3] reb[FCA9A260] WC[0] WN[1]
[TKSRV ] [WAITING ] pri[ 3] reb[FCA9A820] WC[0] WN[1]
[Program ] [WAITING ] pri[ 7] reb[FCA9B010] WC[0] WN[1]
[SASODR ] [WAITING ] pri[ 3] reb[FCA79EC0] WC[0] WN[1]
[FORMAT ] [RUNNING ] pri[ 7] reb[FCA7BD90]
Traceback

No Traceback Available

NOTE: PROCEDURE FORMAT used (Total process time):
real time 7:46.60
user cpu time 5:55.21
system cpu time 51.72 seconds
Memory 6087981k
OS Memory 6956756k
Timestamp 1/22/2009 12:43:13 AM
Page Faults 0
Page Reclaims 0
Page Swaps 0
Voluntary Context Switches 735
Involuntary Context Switches 24121
Block Input Operations 0
Block Output Operations 0

ERROR: User asked for termination
NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements. This may cause NOTE: No observations in data set.
NOTE: There were 33027094 observations read from the data set FMTS.LFDA.
ERROR: Errors printed on page 4.

NOTE: SAS Institute Inc., SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC USA 27513-2414
NOTE: The SAS System used:
real time 2:28:39.02
user cpu time 2:05:06.77
system cpu time 13:47.13
Memory 6092836k
OS Memory 6956756k
Timestamp 1/22/2009 12:43:13 AM
Page Faults 182
Page Reclaims 0
Page Swaps 0
Voluntary Context Switches 1238313
Involuntary Context Switches 438408
Block Input Operations 7
Block Output Operations 0

 

[ChrisW75]

Occasionally I get errors like this. If you close SAS down and re-run it should go away. It's always seemed pretty random to me (someone else also posted something similar a few weeks back). If it happens repeatedly, I should contact SAS Support as this is a SAS application error, not a SAS program error, if that makes sense.

Chris
Business Analyst, Code Monkey, Data Wrangler.
SAS Guru.

 

[krispi]

As a generic 'handy hint', the following code will reset a SAS session which has become corrupted and keeps erroring out:

;;;; * ( ( %* ' " ) )  */; %mend; run cancel;

Cheers,

Chris

 

[ChrisW75]

Hi Krispi - I think that particular string is mre for when the SAS Code errors. The error message that JD posted is more of an application/system error.

Chris
Business Analyst, Code Monkey, Data Wrangler.
SAS Guru.