Solution Re: unexplained vm crash on sarge
Arnaud Vandyck(avandyck@gmail.com)@Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:50:51PM +0200:
> Wade Curry wrote:
> > I've just started picking up java, and decided to install it on a
> > UML instance. I have used the java-package, blackdown .debs, and
> > straight sun .bin package methods. No matter which one I use,
> > starting java or javac I get a crash.
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, no clue about this. Maybe it's better to try a free VM ;-)
>
> --> kaffe, jamvm, gij, sablevm, etc...
I will likely try these out in the near future. In the meantime, I
figured out why the JVM crashed 100% of the time.
The system I was using for experimenting with java is a UML
instance ( at linode.com ), and I had recently upgraded my linode
to a 2.6 series kernel. This combination of 2.6 kernel + UML
apparently doesn't play nicely with GNUtls. I hadn't noticed
anything that was broken by the upgrade 2 weeks prior, so it didn't
occur to me that it may have been the problem, but it was. Doing a
"mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled" cleared up the problem with java.
I'm still not sure what effects it will have on my system to have
GNUtls disabled. I still need to research that.
I learned about the solution by chatting with the people in the
#linode IRC channel. Couldn't find a shred or a hint about it in
Google or anywhere else. So, maybe this message will help somene
when it is archived.
Wade Curry
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