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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020202 Description of problem: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 defines the __libc_wait@@GLIBC_2.0 symbol in glibc 2.2.4 on Red Hat 7.2 glibc 2.2.5 no longer defines this symbol in /lib/i686/libpthread.so. Looks like this breaks Java. Sun's Java2 SDK runs fine on 7.2 with glibc 2.2.4, but apparently doesn't like glibc 2.2.5 :-( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Sun's JAVA2 SDK. 2. Try Do anything, such as: $ cat >x.java class x { } $ javac x.java Actual Results: Error occurred during initialization of VM Unable to load native library: /usr/libexec/java2/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference Additional info: Although the error message refers to libc.so.6, looking at the strace shows libpthread being opened last before everything bombs out.
Sun has no business using glibc private symbols (especially when they are so promoting ABIcheck). In glibc-2.2.5-27 I've temporarily exported it again, but in 2.3 it will be gone for good.
Jakub: Can you please try and get this message to the Sunsoft people directly?