What's this hs_err_pid4020 log file?

[kricker]

Anyone have an idea what this is? Sage crashed and I got this log in my folder. It's been crashing quite a bit lately. I had a few of these log files, this is the latest one.

[bastafidli]

It is file created by Java (JRE) when it crashes usually in native code.

[kricker]

Can anything be gleamed from this file as to why it crashed?

[farfromuman]

Originally Posted by kricker

Can anything be gleamed from this file as to why it crashed?

Look in your sage logs - does it crash during initialization or after hours of use - the sage log will tell you a lot more then these PID files. I got lots of these with this beta after changing my CPU (it was only a speed bump). Both of my digital tuners quit working (1 analog was fine) and I would get this error every time sage service started (it would never finish). I could get sage started but only after removing the tuners. After many reboots and swapping hardware I could not get sage to use the Digital tuners - I could select them in setup but it would crash sage. My solution was pretty ugly - I had to reinstall Vista.