Strangely, this test passed in my test runs, on all platforms, before the push with the changes that pass the TESTVMOPTS, 8003890. It has now been seen to fail on some mac machines. There appears to be an issue with the use of quotes around TESTVMOPTS. The below change resolves the failure on the problem machines, and also continues to pass on all other platforms.

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diff -r 8d7323a9d8ed test/java/util/prefs/PrefsSpi.sh
--- a/test/java/util/prefs/PrefsSpi.sh  Thu Dec 13 21:18:27 2012 -0500
+++ b/test/java/util/prefs/PrefsSpi.sh  Fri Dec 14 16:36:17 2012 +0000
@@ -87,17 +87,17 @@ Sys "$javac" -d jarDir StubPreferencesFa

 case "`uname`" in Windows*|CYGWIN* ) CPS=';';; *) CPS=':';; esac

-Sys "$java" "${TESTVMOPTS}" "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES${CPS}extDir/PrefsSpi.jar" \
+Sys "$java" ${TESTVMOPTS} "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES${CPS}extDir/PrefsSpi.jar" \
     -Djava.util.prefs.PreferencesFactory=StubPreferencesFactory \
     -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=. \
     PrefsSpi "StubPreferences"
-Sys "$java" "${TESTVMOPTS}" "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES" \
+Sys "$java" ${TESTVMOPTS} "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES" \
     -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=. \
     PrefsSpi "java.util.prefs.*"
-Sys "$java" "${TESTVMOPTS}" "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES${CPS}extDir/PrefsSpi.jar" \
+Sys "$java" ${TESTVMOPTS} "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES${CPS}extDir/PrefsSpi.jar" \
     -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=. \
     PrefsSpi "StubPreferences"
-Sys "$java" "${TESTVMOPTS}" "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES" "-Djava.ext.dirs=extDir" \
+Sys "$java" ${TESTVMOPTS} "-cp" "$TESTCLASSES" "-Djava.ext.dirs=extDir" \
     -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=. \
     PrefsSpi "StubPreferences"

-Chris.

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