Fatal error in gc "GetThreadContext failed"

Hey guys,

I need your help..

I am creating a lan fps style game.
Its a simpel setup using unity's own networking and without a master server, you can just choose if you want to host a server or connnect to a server and if you connect you need to feed it the hostname of the server.

It all works fine but sometimes it randomly gives 2 or 3 of this errors and freezes. It hapens like 1 out of 10 times and it appears to be random. It hapens in the editor and in the builded player, and on the server and on the client.

I have no idea why this is hapening, tried it on 3 pc's (win 7, vista, xp) and it hapens on all.

I hope you guys can help me.
Thanks in advance.

ps. sorry for bad english, i am not a native english speaker.

 

No one knows?

Doesn't anybody atleast know what the error means?

 

There are a myriad of really nasty threading bugs that exist in the version of mono that Unity uses. It crops up randomly in various places such as asynch loading, but most notably in Unity's networking.

You'll likely have to wait until sometime in the summer for Unity 3.0, then cross your fingers and pray it's resolved.

See the following thread for more information.

Unity Networking is Dysfunctional

 

thnx for your responds.

thats too bad.. waiting for unity 3.0 then

 

Don't let the bad news stop you from filing a bug report and sample project if you can.

A failure rate of 10% is higher than anything I've seen mentioned. Something that high is approaching the realm of repeatability and could be valuable to the Unity devs.

p.s. your English is fine!

 

where and how would i file a report?

sorry im kinda new here.

 

I did a bit more testing, and it appears it hapens much more often when you have a slow network, for example when trying it over hamachi (wich is very slow), it crashes almost always, but over my home network it crashes much less often.

Maybe i am sending too much data for the network too handle or something?

 

See the following thread for more a more in-depth discussion about bug reporting. But the short answer is you file them through the Unity app itself. Help->Report A Problem. Give as much detail as you can. Reference this thread, attach a small sample project, etc.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1794/how-do-i-report-a-bug-in-unity

It's hard to say what's going on. The error you receive is somewhat vague. GC is possibly the garbage collector, which is really part of Mono and not Unity itself.

 

Make sure you aren't using print statements in the standalone - I found I was getting one of those errors every time I did so, which makes sense since in the standalone it has no place to print to.

Edit: They came back , but I can definitely cause it to happen if I click on a button a few times in a row quickly (and I'm using a ghetto version of locking since yield isn't working right in mono)

 

I'm getting these errors a lot in Unity3 beta 4, and not even doing anything fancys. Getting them on startup and while changing project.

I have Unity 2.6 installed also on the same machine. Could this be causing problems?

 

Ah! Interesting discovery.. these problems seem to go away when I run it in Compatibility mode Windows XP SP2.

A little more info: Win7 64, 8 GB mem, quad core.

 

Hey! Sorry for necroposting, but I have this problem right now and yes, I'm have Kaspersky installed on my PC. I'm with Unity 3
Win 7 Ultimate 64

Hope that helps!

 

I had tried that, though I am still getting the same error message. On the brighter side, I had paid attention to my cpu usage, and when unity loads, it maxes out 1 of my 4 cores (I have a Q6600 intel core 2 quad at 2.34ghz).

From what i am getting (understanding) it is having an issue with the 64bit systems, since it is a 32bit program. See 64bit differs from 32 for the fact that processes get split between the memory and the processor (32= proc. 32= ram), which is another reason why you have the capability to upgrade your ram to a higher capacity then a where a 32bit (majority of OSes) tops off at 4/3gb ram. that is why they tell you "some" programs might not work if it does not meet your OS's ratio.

Regardless try to install "Oracle's VM VirtualBox" or "VMware's ESXI" (since they are both open source), and just look for your old winxp or vista product key, and just install a VM (Virtual Machine), just make sure also you are installing a 32bit OS (Operating System).

 

Only badly coded 32bit programs have problems with 64bit operating systems. Besides, it works just fine for me. The problem seems to be Windows 7 and Kaspersky.

Also the Virtualbox suggestion wont work on account of the fact U3 requires the following:

Code (csharp):

1. Unity Editor requires a graphics card with at least 4 texture units.
2. All graphics cards manufactured since 2002 should be ok.
3.  
4. Your graphics card is: NVIDIA RIVA TNT
5. and it has 1 texture units

which is the error given if it's run in Virtualbox, which doesn't currently emulate 3D 100% and instead reverts to emulating something pretty low powered. I dunno about VMware tho, might have a better chance. Course if you run Snow Leopard in Virtualbox on a Windows host (not supposed to but you can), ironically you can get U3 to work on it, just incredibly slowly due to lack of any kind of real acceleration.

 

Hi.
Im using win 7 64bit, and i have kaspersky instaled.
When Kaspersky was on then i recived that error, but after shouting down i didnt recived thta error.
Hope that will help.

Regards
Artus

 

not really cause that would be no acceptable reason to fail with thread context errors, being unable to run reasonably on a system newer than Win98

 

Hi All,

I've been having this problem off and on for many months now. I, too, am running Windows 7 with Kaspersky. Seems like too strong a coincidence for that combination to be reported so often -- my guess is that it's related, possibly causal in some sense. (Also, I'm running 64 bit Windows 7.)

Interestingly, after loading up a new project and un-checking the "Welcome" screen, when I clicked on the 'X' to close the Welcome screen I got this error (just now). Every time I clicked on the 'X' I got a new pop up indicating the error (I'd never been able to reproduce it like that before, albeit in the same Unity session).

Barry

 

Hello again,

Yesterday I tried using MonoDevelop for the first time (with Unity 3.1). When I clicked on the "Debug" button it tried to bring up Unity, but I got the GetThreadContext error again -- this time with 100% repeatability.

I tried putting Unity on the Kaspersky Trusted Applications list (as suggested on another thread), but that didn't help. I then tried turning off Kaspersky altogether -- still no dice. I then tried telling it not to restart an reboot and rebooted -- no luck. Finally, I uninstalled Kaspersky altogether -- Voila! The error disappeared.

I then went to the Kaspersky support site to contact Support -- it immediately suggested that I upgrade to the very latest version of Kasperksy, so I did: Internet Security 2011, Version 11.0.1.400 (a).

NOW THE ERROR IS COMPLETELY GONE. I have even removed Unity from Kaspersky's Trusted Applications list and I no longer get the error.

Unfortunately, MonoDevelop crashes on me a lot, but that's another problem ....

Barry

 

I have Unity 3.1 I found this error occuring on start-up. My fix was to disable the Spybot S+D Teatimer.exe

 

Yeah, I've experienced the same thing pretty consistently. It's getting more than annoying.

When I try to start Unity, it'll hang and I'll get the GetThreadContext failed message. Then it'll start sucking 13% of my CPU until I kill the process.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit Pro with ESET.

 

I was using ESET before too. You need to modify the scanner to not do realtime checking on processes from what I've been told (I've since switched to kaspersky, no prob at all anymore)

 

win7 64bit Eset Smart Security 4.2.71.2 had the same issue. Disabling the firewall completely in Eset settings->personal firewall "fixed" the problem

 

Hi guys,

Had the "GetThreadContext failed" problem too(using ESET 5 and disabling it completely didn't work for me) ; reading your posts and some other posts i realized that disabling your network card and enabling it only after you start unity does the trick ; tried this trick on 4 PCs multiple times ; success rate 100% ; let me know if it also worked for you

 

Resolved! (cheers Barry)

I HAD: Kaspersky PURE (9.1.0.124a) / Win7.64 / Unity 3.5

Got the error while running the "Networking" sample project (notably with the Castles scene).

UPGRADED TO: Kaspersky PURE 2.0 (12.0.2.733)

... haven't seen the error since. Hooray!

 

I have avast, win 7 64 and unity 4.1.2 and getting this bug recently.

Any ideas?

 

I'm in the same boat as Zerial, help would be much appreciated.

 

any news here? this bug is really anoying.

 

Get back to Avast 7.

 

I just happen to see this error under Win64 now. Annoying...

Edit: I can say this is UnityGUI related. Proly GUIContent() related.
I left a build running for half an our without calling anything related to GUIContent... I open a panel with some GUIContent functions and the game crashes in less than a minute. Need a fix for this cause on previous Unity 4 release this wasnt happening.