Error: "process sp_opst_mt killed due to SIGSEGV" and subsequent core dump (4305059)

After upgrading to 6.0.1 or installing a new 6.0.1 environment poster can exit with the following error messages in the event_log:

06/23/08 19:00 Error: process sp_opst_mt killed due to SIGSEGV [sp_cop/16167]
06/23/08 19:00 Notice: process sp_opst_mt killed due to SIGSEGV; (core file = /oracle/var/dump/core.16884) [sp_cop/16167]

After restarting post will continue to work but eventually fail again.

You see the following entries in the core.out file:
===> Process sp_opst_mt (pid 16167) received signal SIGSEGV (11) <===
core '/shareplex/var/dump/core.16884' of 16167:  /quest/.app-modules/sp_opst_mt -uocedb1
-----------------   lwp# 3 / thread# 401   --------------------
 fe2b3a8c strncpy   (44223d3a, 467dd4, 400, 75706461, 1cb520, 44223d3a) + 498
 000f08dc SessStatsAfter (2, df9bf0, fcafbc90, 1, 2eab4f0e, b58830) + 558
 0008e92c StRoutine (570318, fe1a3d38, 0, 5, 1, fe401000) + 44c
 fe1eb01c _thread_start (570318, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 40

The important information to look for is: "StRoutine", "SessStatsAfter" and "strncpy". All these together point to an issue with the statistics module.

Some of the statistics gathered for poster information get corrupted. No customer data is harmed but because of the corrupted statistics poster exits with SIGSEGV

Workaround: Restart post.

Resolution: Contact support

Status:ST55117 is included in upcoming version 6.1