From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: Attempts to execute the Sun Java 1.4.0 JVM (i.e., any Java program) fail. JVM 1.3.1 works, and 1.4.0 works under RedHat 7.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RedHat 7.2. 2. Download and install j2sdk1.4.0 from http://www.javasoft.com 3. Execute 'java --version' Actual Results: Error occurred during initialization of VM Unable to load native library: /usr/local/jdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_waitpid, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference Expected Results: Version info printed Additional info:
Typo: "1. Install RedHat 7.2" -> "1. Install RedHat 7.2.92". Oops.
This is fixed by newer versions of glibc in rawhide. I was having the exact same problem with j2re 1.4.0. I upgraded from glibc 2.2.5-27 to 2.2.5-30.
Fixed in glibc-2.2.5-30.