Freebsd + openjdk 7 = problem?

[Paul Pathiakis]

Lon Chen,

It's the FreeBSD community, nothing is a bother. ;-)

No.  Everything is still crashing with OpenJDK7.  The sad part is the 
newest issue I'll face is that OpenNMS is going to 16 on their software 
and it will require a JDK 8 variant.  FYI, JDK7 is dead very soon.  
There will be no support for it as Oracle is going to EOL 7.  So, JDK8 
will be the only JDK supported soon.

I've been trying to get the FreeBSD Java people to pick this up and run 
with it to get OpenJDK to work correctly again.  The OpenNMS people have 
made extensive patches to OpenNMS to support FreeBSD after I begged them 
to do so.  However, I have heard nothing about progress being made to 
resolve the issues in weeks.

I'm going to CC the people on the java at freebsd.org list.

If you can send them crash dumps, that would be great.

I'm still working with the OpenNMS people and I'm going to get a cheat 
sheet together on how to quickly implement a build and install so that 
someone in the java group can fix these issues.

P.


On 04/16/2015 05:25, Lon Chen wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> I'm really sorry to bother you and to write you directly, but your 
> feedback with opennms on freebsd and jdk7 is really important to us.
> I've been following your discussions about freebsd and jdk7, and I 
> would like to have some infos.
>
> We are currently trying to upgrade our homemade applications to 
> openjdk7 but, like you did, we had some random segmentation faults 
> that did not occur with openjdk6. It can happen within 10min or within 
> several days. Our applications were running smoothly on openjdk6 and 
> freebsd8.
>
> We are also trying to have our applications work with linux-jdk-7 but 
> it seems that you still had segmentation faults with it?
> Finally, what do you mean when you say :
>
> "
> Finally, the SIGSEV is the same error I was getting.  Newer versions of
> OpenNMS, OpenJDK7, and FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE may have changed that.
> " ?
> Does it mean that the problem disappeared with some new packages?
>
> Thanks in advance for your consideration.
> -- 
> Lon CHEN
> Software Architect
> lon.chen at eileo.com
> Phone: +33 1 53 01 21 98
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