Bug#165352: Sun Java VM fails to start

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:46:38PM +1000, Jay Hap-hang Yu wrote:

> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> Unable to load native library:
> /usr/local/sun/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol
> __libc_waitpid, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with
> link time reference

Backward compatability is only guaranteed for published interfaces.

0009b274 g    DF .text	0000002c  GLIBC_PRIVATE __libc_waitpid

Java should not be refering to __libc_waitpid directly.  You may want
to report the bug to them upstream, since this will hit them on every
distro.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey




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