Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 38249
JDK1.3 and JDK1.3..0_2 will not run
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
Sun's and Blackdown's java from jdk1.3 and jdk1.3.0_2 (Sun only) hang the terminal. First, I had to place the libjvm.so (from jdk_inst_dir/jre/lib/i386/client/) into /usr/lib. Then I ran java - version from jdk_inst_dir/bin and the term just sits there. A ps shows no activity to the associated java processes. JDK1.2 seems to run fine. I think this might be a good time to put in a plug from having Red Hat include a good reference java rather than that quassi knock-off called kaffe. Come on guys! You can package the jre in the distro not to mention Blackdown's implementation.
I can confirm that this is a problem. I'm going to have to downgrade because of this problem. regards, rob lembree (lembree@metrolink.com)
Um, no we can't ship any JDK/JRE environments. The licenses prohibit them, and they aren't open source anyway. Did you try setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL as specified in the release notes?
Here are the results. % export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=1 % /Work/jdk1.3/bin/java /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
You should use export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 It is written in RELEASE-NOTES btw.
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 does indeed work around this problem. What side-effects might this have on other things? Are the release notes available online?
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES The effect of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 is: a) libc (libm, libpthread) no longer assume they run on kernel 2.4.1 and above (the assumption means some optimizations) b) libpthread cannot use %gs register based threads, they use the stack pointer based fixed stack size threads So basically it is mainly a performance issue, or if some threaded application needs to use either smaller or larger stacks than 2MB (smaller so that it can fit more threads into virtual memory).