Re: [opensuse] update-alternatives configuration questions for Java

On 4/20/2012 2:40 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Basically I am trying to install the Oracle/Sun version of Java on my
systems. (and yes I know that Novell/openSuSE and Oracle got into a snit
over license agreements, and as a user of Java I am pretty mad about the
decision to drop the installation support for it. So I am tasked with
trying to install the Oracle version since the openJDK flat out does not
work for either Eclipse or our Web Start applications.)
I was interested by "the openJDK flat out does not work for .. Eclipse",
so I googled but didn't find anything about this problem. Do you have a
link to bug reports or other descriptions of this problem please?
Dave - I have not reported the problem with Eclipse to openSuSE, about using the openJDK version of Java to run it under. But I have participated in and seen discussions about it on the Eclipse users news/mail group and this problem has been ongoing for a long time now. The consensus has been to use the Sun Java tools, especially when debugging Web Start applications and Tomcat servlets, which I need to do. Anywise, if I switch my system back to using the openJDK version of Java and try to start up Eclipse, this is what happens -

marc@marcslaptop:~/eclipse/eclipse_64> ./eclipse
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGBUS (0x7) at pc=0x00007fd50423b474, pid=26611, tid=140552917538560
#
# JRE version: 6.0_24-b24
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (20.0-b12 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Derivative: IcedTea6 1.11.1
# Distribution: Dummy Product (x86_64), package suse-3.1-x86_64
# Problematic frame:
# C [libzip.so+0x4474] Java_java_util_zip_ZipEntry_initFields+0x6f4
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/marc/eclipse/eclipse_64/hs_err_pid26611.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions how to reproduce the bug and visit:
# http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

I could send you, or whomever, the log file if you like, it is rather lengthy. I am unable to decipher it and figure out what is wrong, just know that in the past I was successful with running eclipse using the Sun Java VM instead, so am in the process of pursuing that route instead. At the moment, under openSuSE12.1 I don't have eclipse running under the Oracle/Sun version yet because of these other issues with the environment variables, but I had no problems getting it to run in openSuSE11.4 and 11.3 so figure that is my best and quickest route....

Marc...



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