Re: CentOS 5.5 Java Process Death

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Martin Hewitt wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Martin Hewitt <martin.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  CentOS 5.5 Java Process Death
> 
> Hi Keith,
>
> Interesting idea, I've built the Sun SDK on one server, 
> and left the yum-installed version on the other, and have 
> started the same java application on both servers with 
> strace, so I'll see if there's any difference.
>
> Thanks for all the help,

Well, it's not an idea Martin, it's what I've learnt by 
experience ;) . For example, the newer versions of 
Eclipse IDE will not work with GCJ. Please see this excerpt 
from the installation directory docs of Helios - Eclipse 
3.6:

/eclipse/readme/readme_eclipse.html

   3.1.2 General - GCJ

    GCJ is an effort by the GCC team to provide an open
    source Java compiler and runtime environment to interpret
    Java bytecode. Unfortunately, the GCJ runtime environment
    is not an environment that is often tested on by Eclipse
    developers.

    The most common problems surrounding GCJ are:

      * Eclipse does not start at all
      * Eclipse throws a 'java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
        org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin' that can be found in 
the logs
        (located in workspace/.metadata/.log)

    The workspace's log file is a good place to check to 
identify whether GCJ
    is being used or not. Every Eclipse log session is 
prepended with
    information about the runtime environment that was used 
to run Eclipse.
    The log may include something like the following:

    java.fullversion=GNU libgcj 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-5)

    If Eclipse does start, one can check which runtime 
environment is being
    used to run Eclipse by going to Help > About Eclipse SDK 
> Installation
    Details > Configuration. The About dialog itself can also 
provide other
    information, the build identifier can be of particular 
interest as it is
    tagged by some distributions. This allows the user to 
identify whether
    Eclipse was downloaded through the distribution's package 
management
    system or directly from the eclipse.org web site.

    Eg: Build id: M20070212-1330 (Ubuntu version: 
3.2.2-0ubuntu3)

    The two most common workarounds are:

      * download the Eclipse binary from eclipse.org directly
      * run Eclipse using an alternate Java runtime 
environment

    To download Eclipse, try one of the links below:

      * [40]http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
      * [41]http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/

    It is imperative that 64-bit builds are downloaded and 
used if a 64-bit
    Java runtime environment has been installed. Below are 
two sample tarball
    names of version 3.6.0 of the Eclipse SDK packaged for 
32-bit and 64-bit
    processors.

  eclipse-SDK-3.6-linux-gtk.tar.gz (32-bit)
  eclipse-SDK-3.6-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz (64-bit)

    To run Eclipse with an alternate Java runtime 
environment, the path to the
    Java virtual machine's binary must be identified. With an 
Eclipse
    installation from the distribution, altering the $PATH 
variable to include
    the path to the alternate Java runtime environment is 
often not enough as
    the Eclipse that Linux distributions package often 
performs a scan
    internally to pick up GCJ by itself whilst ignoring 
what's on the $PATH.
    An example of the terminal's output is shown below:

    searching for compatible vm...
    testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea...not found
    testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...found

    Once the path to the virtual machine's binary has been 
identified, try
    running Eclipse with the following command:

    ./eclipse -vm /path/to/jre/bin/java

    For an actual example, it might look something like the 
following:

    ./eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/sun-java-6/bin/java
    ./eclipse -vm /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.02/bin/java

    If this seems to solve the problem, it is likely that the
    problem really was related to the use of GCJ as the Java
    runtime for running Eclipse. The eclipse.ini file located
    within Eclipse's folder can be altered to automatically
    pass this argument to Eclipse at startup...

I use the following from Sun's download website:

jdk-6u18-linux-i586-rpm.bin

The latest 32bit version is available from here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/install-linux-rpm-137089.html

I've noticed other JAVA applications do not work correctly 
either, on other vendor's java offerings. Which is the 
reason for grabbing the rpm.bin from Sun/Oracle and 
installing that.

HTH

Keith Roberts

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