Re: Bug#925928: tomcat9: Error occurred during initialization of VM: Option -XX:+UseG1GC not supported
This is the suggested patch in full:
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9e1dab71..8014c9e0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+tomcat9 (9.0.16-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Team upload.
+ * Remove -XX:+UseG1GC from standard JAVA_OPTS; the JRE chooses
+ a suitable GC automatically anyway (Closes: #925928)
+
+ -- Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:47:17 +0100
+
tomcat9 (9.0.16-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Removed read/write access to /var/lib/solr (Closes: #923299)
diff --git a/debian/default.template b/debian/default.template
index 7c36a23b..f75801b0 100644
--- a/debian/default.template
+++ b/debian/default.template
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
# OpenJDK and the Oracle JDK are tried.
#JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk
-# You may pass JVM startup parameters to Java here. If unset, the default
-# options will be: -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseG1GC
-JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseG1GC"
+# You may pass JVM startup parameters to Java here. If you run Tomcat with
+# Java 8 instead of 9 or newer, add "-XX:+UseG1GC" to select a suitable GC.
+# If unset, the default options will be: -Djava.awt.headless=true
+JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"
# To enable remote debugging uncomment the following line.
# You will then be able to use a Java debugger on port 8000.
diff --git a/debian/setenv.sh b/debian/setenv.sh
index 3eb3be4a..ee74c834 100755
--- a/debian/setenv.sh
+++ b/debian/setenv.sh
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat9
# Default Java options
if [ -z "$JAVA_OPTS" ]; then
- JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseG1GC"
+ JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"
fi
If acceptable, I’ll add it to master. (I’m still working on the
init script, but it’s almost done.)
bye,
//mirabilos
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