From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: On RHEL3.0ES with *everything* installed and fully updated via up2date, the IBM JVM seg faults right away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.1-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. java -version Actual Results: Segmentation fault Expected Results: java version "1.4.1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1) Classic VM (build 1.4.1, J2RE 1.4.1 IBM build cxia32141-20030522 (JIT enabled: jitc)) Additional info: The IBM JVM seemed to work ok on the Beta release and after the initial iso install. However, it seemed to start segfaulting after the glibc update (reinstalling to be sure is not an option for me).
Apparently it currently works with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5, although it was working without it on Taroon Beta at least...
The latest Java2 SDK from IBM (IBMJava2-SDK-1.4.1-2.0.i386.rpm) appears to be working without needing to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL. How about generating an errata release sometime soon? Pretty please? $ java -version java version "1.4.1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1) Classic VM (build 1.4.1, J2RE 1.4.1 IBM build cxia321411-20040301 (JIT enabled: jitc))
I have an up2date RHEL3 box with IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.1-8 on it, and I can't reproduce this. Running `java -version' gives: java version "1.4.1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1) Classic VM (build 1.4.1, J2RE 1.4.1 IBM build cxia321411-20030917 (JIT enabled: jitc)) This is a different build than the one that is segfaulting on you. Are you sure you have 1.4.1-8?
Yes. $ rpm -qa IBMJava2 IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.1-8 IBMJava2-SDK-1.4.1-9 $ type java java is /opt/IBMJava2-141/bin/java $ java -version java version "1.4.1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1) Classic VM (build 1.4.1, J2RE 1.4.1 IBM build cxia321411-20030917 (JIT enabled: jitc)) It appears to be working now, 11-weeks and many updates after I reported the bug. I guess there is merit in the "ignore it and maybe it will eventually resolve itself" approach to bug fixing! ;)
Well, IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.1-8 may be working for a "-version", but it won't run eclipse! Try it with "eclipse -vm /opt/IBMJava2-141/bin/java" and watch how fast it tosses up an error window! I was able to successfully start eclipse if I used the IBM supplied RPM listed above in comment #2 (without needing LD_ASSUME_KERNEL at all)!! So, I'll ask again for Red Hat to make an errata release to the newer 1.4.1 JVM from IBM.