Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89181
IBM Java (jdk jre javac) crash & burn
Last modified: 2016-11-24 10:04:34 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: After upgrading from ver 8.0 to 9.0 and running up2date to get the latest ver 9 fixes (problem occured immediately after upgrade), I can't run any Java programs that ran before he upgrade. Neiether Websphere Studio Application Developer (i.e IBM JDK 1.3 "J2RE 1.3.1 IBM build cxia32131-20020622") will run receives a segmentation fault. Commandline java with IBM JDK 1.3.1 ("J2RE 1.3.1 IBM build cxia32131-20021102") will not run either. Running the Java2D sample for instance immediately exits with "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" programs. Just trying to compile a java program with IBM's JDK 1.4 ("J2RE 1.4.0 IBM build cxia32140-20020917a") will not run eithergives a message: "JVMDG217: Dump Handler is Processing a Signal - Please Wait" and then hogs the CPU 100% (or more) and the process must be stopped with a 'kill -9' signal. From some past bugzilla reports I have guessed hat the component involved is glibc but I haven't verified it in any way... Rgds /Anders Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start WSAD or 2.Run IBM JDK 1.3.1 Java2D sample or 3.try to compile a java program with IBM JDK 1.4 Actual Results: Segmentation faults/core dumps/CPU hogging Expected Results: I would expect java to function in ver 9 too :-) Additional info:
Please note that with the kernel that ships with Red Hat Linux 9 comes a new threading system which "breaks" non-true-POSIX compliant code (which includes various JVMs). Read your release notes and search for "java" and the workarounds to attempt to get buggy JVMs to work under Red Hat Linux 9 (or simply upgrade to the manufacturer's latest JVM that has been tested with NPTL-enabled kernels).
Right, please read RELEASE-NOTES.