Bug 490141 – JRockit Installed When RHEL Supplementary Channel Selected

Bug 490141 - JRockit Installed When RHEL Supplementary Channel Selected

Summary:	JRockit Installed When RHEL Supplementary Channel Selected

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	tomcat5 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	David Knox
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Reported:	2009-03-13 10:40 EDT by Mike Millson
Modified:	2015-11-01 19:15 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-05-21 08:08:27 EDT
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Description Mike Millson 2009-03-13 10:40:03 EDT

Description of problem:
When tomcat5 is installed without specifying a JDK package, yum chooses to install java-1.5.0-bea and java-1.5.0-bea-devel, then subsequent updates fail.

How reproducible:
yum install tomcat5

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure no JDKs are installed.
2. Subscribe the system to the RHEL Supplementary channel.
3. Execute yum install tomcat5
4. Execute yum update
  
Actual results:
1. java-1.5.0-bea and java-1.5.0-bea-devel are selected to be installed to satisfy the tomcat5 JDK dependencies. 
2. After tomcat is installed with JRockit, when yum update is subsequently run, the update fails with the following error:
Error: java-1.5.0-bea-uninstall conflicts with java-1.4.2-bea 

Expected results:
I would expect to see OpenJDK installed to satisfy the JDK requirement. And definitely not JRockit, which should be removed in 5.3. Best order of selecting a JDK if one is not specified:
1) OpenJDK
2) Sun JDK

Comment 1 Thomas Cameron 2010-01-30 01:58:11 EST

Please note - I am not a developer, I just happened to see this open BZ.

Workaround is to install e.g. java-1.6.0-sun first, then install tomcat5.  That seems to work.

Comment 2 brian 2010-11-10 11:20:54 EST

I also encountered this problem. I solved it as follows:

$ yum install java-1.6.0-sun
$ alternatives --config java # set java-1.6 (number 3 for me)
$ rpm -e --nodeps java-1.6.0-bea
$ yum reinstall tomcat5 
$ yum update -y

Of course, you need to switch from BEA to SUN.

Comment 3 brian 2010-11-10 11:51:04 EST

I have error during tomcat restart :
I see error messages '/usr/bin/rebuild-jar-repository: error: JVM_LIBDIR' or '/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java ...

$ rm -f /var/run/tomcat.pid
$ yum install java-1.6.0-devel
$ service tomcat start

I verified my application : it works fine.

k0b3.

Comment 4 Michal Haško 2012-05-21 08:08:27 EDT

java-1.5.0-bea is no longer supported.
This is by no means a tomcat bug. It is merely a misfortunate way of selecting dependent packages by yum.
It is not very safe to let yum pick JVM vendor automatically anyway.

With these reasons, I'm closing this issue. Please reopen if necessary.

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