Segfault when started with large stacksize limit

[Keno]

$ulimit -S -s 1073741824
$ ~/julia-comparison/julia --project=.
ERROR: pthread_create(signal_listener) failed
Segmentation fault

Yes, the ulimit is too large, but this isn't a very nice error. We should either give a nicer one or detect this situation, emit a warning and pick a reasonable stack size instead.

[akshatagarwl]

Hey! @Keno I am new to Julia and programming. Is this an issue that you'd advise me to work with?

[Keno]

Sure, I think it's probably not too hard.

[akshatagarwl]

Okay. I'll start working on it.

[vtjnash]

(we do not segfault anymore, but it still exits immediately)

[AsafManela]

This may be a different issue, but I'm trying to run julia 1.9.3 from the docker images on a LSF compute cluster and it fails with the same message:

[user@compute1-client-4 ~]$ bsub -Is -q general-interactive -a 'docker(julia)' /bin/bash
Defaulting to LSF user group 'compute-user'
Job <807841> is submitted to queue <general-interactive>.
<<Waiting for dispatch ...>>
<<Starting on compute1-exec-132.host>>
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from library/julia
a803e7c4b030: Pull complete 
7e37124389ea: Pull complete 
1c77f91c0428: Pull complete 
7d82f640fa09: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:f7709839811c9b47c6b78778105fc90d22cfa2e39e382d47523ba4673830bd89
Status: Downloaded newer image for julia:latest
docker.io/library/julia:latest
user@compute1-exec-132:~$ ulimit -a
real-time non-blocking time  (microseconds, -R) unlimited
core file size              (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size               (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority                 (-e) 0
file size                   (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                     (-i) 1541408
max locked memory           (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size             (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                          (-n) 1048576
pipe size                (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues         (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority                  (-r) 0
stack size                  (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time                   (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes                  (-u) unlimited
virtual memory              (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                          (-x) unlimited
user@compute1-exec-132:~$ /usr/local/julia/bin/julia 
ERROR: pthread_create(signal_listener) failed
user@compute1-exec-132:~$ 
exit

This doesn't happen with julia:1.8 as you can see here:

[user@compute1-client-4 ~]$ bsub -Is -q general-interactive -a 'docker(julia:1.8)' /bin/bash
Defaulting to LSF user group 'compute-user'
Job <807851> is submitted to queue <general-interactive>.
<<Waiting for dispatch ...>>
<<Starting on compute1-exec-135.host>>
1.8: Pulling from library/julia
9e3ea8720c6d: Pull complete 
bf4da5f2ad94: Pull complete 
d9765e42bfee: Pull complete 
5639209fa12e: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:c9c13e38ea7ef6a893b97834e75f00fec4fc07b24072088e1360171cb192ebb0
Status: Downloaded newer image for julia:1.8
docker.io/library/julia:1.8
user@compute1-exec-135:~$ ulimit -a
real-time non-blocking time  (microseconds, -R) unlimited
core file size              (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size               (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority                 (-e) 0
file size                   (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                     (-i) 1541402
max locked memory           (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size             (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                          (-n) 1048576
pipe size                (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues         (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority                  (-r) 0
stack size                  (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time                   (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes                  (-u) unlimited
virtual memory              (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                          (-x) unlimited
user@compute1-exec-135:~$ /usr/local/julia/bin/julia 
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.8.5 (2023-01-08)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia> 
user@compute1-exec-135:~$ 
exit

Any ideas?