Bug 38191

Summary:	sun java sdk incompatible with textutils
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Tim Grant <tgrant>
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Tim Grant 2001-04-28 10:15:50 UTC

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The Sun Java sdk is incompatible with the version of textutils shipped in
rh7.1 due to cut being moved from /usr/bincut to /bin/cut.  This can be
fixed with "ln -s /bin/cut /usr/bin/cut" however the jvm will still not
work (reason unknown).  The compiler does now work however.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.java <class file>
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  starts three java threads and hangs

Expected Results:  successful program execution

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-04-30 16:52:15 UTC

Since they refuse to release the source code, there's nothing whatsoever we 
can do to fix their bugs. For cut, they should search $PATH - neither FHS nor 
LSB guarantee you'll find a version of cut in /usr/bin. I've added a symlink 
in textutils though, since some other apps are stupid enough to hardcode 
/usr/bin/cut, as well.

The segmentation fault is releated to their (again stupid and not standards 
compliant) insistence on the stack being fixed-size and 2 MB, neither of which 
is the case in the i686 build of glibc. Check the release notes for more 
details and the workaround for terribly broken applications like jdk.