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A problem related to debuginfo was found in the java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1 package. This issue might affect crash analysis done by Automatic Bug Reporting Tool and its retrace server, and also prevent proper debugging of crashes via GDB. Debuginfo package includes a symbolic link to each binary that has the debugging symbols stored there. For java-1.6.0-openjdk, 11 symbolic links do not point to the right binary, and that makes it impossible to use build ids from a coredump to get a list of packages required by it. Usually, this is a packaging error caused usually by placing identical binary into several locations instead of creating a symlink. If one copy of the binary is SUID/SGID, it is not possible to use symlink. You can add a dependency on bug #727872 and rebuild java-1.6.0-openjdk when that bug is fixed. - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/java affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/java referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/1e/8339e2439739e2df3262cfc6282b19dc57f15a - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/rmid affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/rmid referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/14/853253be400604bf9bebb821c9a2142dbe4db0 - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/unpack200 affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/unpack200 referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/84/527fa4c72b31b4568c79f0bd0ed2fe81e8f497 - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/pack200 affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/pack200 referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/dc/54903d661b96740ad94d5d7e964ddba82a1393 - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/rmiregistry affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/rmiregistry referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/1c/8f96730d8f279037a6f175317786c3e79e4d0c - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/orbd affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/orbd referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/10/52c94ac2b516487146e4c168bdc62556937fb4 - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/policytool affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/policytool referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/a0/aada5d6771246a7963789a465dfd673a8b30a0 - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/tnameserv affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/tnameserv referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/73/a99abaae57abf6204d05c8df6db3de2793c7a3 - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/keytool affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/keytool referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/48/c577a2f1b94e9cb112c89fdc2fe695414ab72a - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/servertool affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/bin/servertool referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/68/5a294dac7609674125e05da5d9d4ed12e12385 - affected binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/jexec affected package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 referenced binary: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/lib/jexec referenced package: java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.39.1.9.8.el6_1.i686 debuginfo symlink: /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/8b/52e1794d7abb9336dbf2931d6e12723450ef29 This issue has been solved in Fedora by /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh creating additional symlinks for identical binaries. However, symlinks should be used instead of duplicating a binary when possible. (This bug was detected and filed by a script.)
Thanks for the pointer to 727872. I will add a dependency on it. We do not use any setuid/setguid. The duplicated binaries are a result of upstream JDK build and I think it would be best left untouched unless unavoidable.
Since RHEL 6.2 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Adding Pavel from QE on our side to cc: Pavel, please see above bug. I don't think this is really an issue and do not want to add symlinks as it changes what upstream distributes and apps might rely on there being binaries rather than symlinks in some places. Are you okay with closing this issue?
No movement here for over 18 months. Coupled with the fact that we do not want to break upstream layout, I am going to close this.