On 9 September 2014 09:15, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> after updating yesterday java does not work anymore for me: >> >> ,---- >> | [tj@arch ~]$ LC_ALL=C java --help >> | /usr/bin/java: line 2: /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin/java: Too many levels of >> | symbolic links >> | /usr/bin/java: line 2: exec: /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin/java: cannot >> | execute: Too many levels of symbolic links >> `---- >> > Same issue here. > > $ archlinux-java fix > seems to fix everything > > gabx@hortensia ➤➤ versions/1.8-pre1 % ls -al /usr/lib/jvm > total 144K > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 9 09:07 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 228 root root 136K Sep 8 15:50 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Sep 22 2013 java-7-openjdk/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 9 09:07 default -> java-7-openjdk/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 9 09:07 default-runtime -> > java-7-openjdk/jre/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 8 15:50 java-default-runtime -> default/ Hello, Guillaume here (packager of that "piece of crap" java-common). This issue and its fix were already reported here [0] and discussed on the forum here [1] several days ago. [0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186640 [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41826 FYI the whole idea was to fix this bug [2] where some application need to know a valid JDK and a valid JRE. [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41639 > For anyone who have installed the jre* packages, do a `pacman -Qo > /usr/bin/* >/dev/null` -- most if not all items in the list will be > symlinks created by the jre* packages at install time, without any > package tracking them. Yes, that is the point of script archlinux-java [3]. [3] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/bin_archlinux-java?h=packages/java-common @lolilolicon: thanks for you bug report but I am afraid this is the point of this approach. More about this on the wiki [4]. My answer on the bug report. Also, this has been publicly discussed back in May [5] where very few people cared to give feedback. [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java#Switching_between_JVM [5] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-May/036410.html
