public static void initiateFailure(Error f) throws InternalGemFireError, Error {
    SystemFailure.setFailure(f);
    throwFailure();
  }
Signals that a system failure has occurred and then throws an AssertionError.

@param f the failure to set
@throws IllegalArgumentException if f is null
@throws InternalGemFireError always; this method does not return normally.
@throws Error if a thread-specific AssertionError cannot be allocated.
geode-core/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/SystemFailure.java