sounds like the JDK bug with newer kernels, see the linux-kernel mailing list or the archives of this list, the solution is usually downgrade the kernel or upgrade your JDK.
this bug only affects older JDK with newer kernels, JDK tries to call an undocumented /proc file and pukes when it can't find it. linux-kernel developers said it was a bad bug, and no program should rely on /proc for anything as it is not a "finished" file system things are still changing in it often and programs can break if they do rely on /proc nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mike Werner wrote: reznae >I recently installed jdk onto my potato box - one of my classes this reznae >semester is programming in Java. The problem I am having is that every reznae >time I try to run javac to do the byte-compile I get the message: reznae >Cannot open /proc/04505 for GC reznae >The number here ^^^^^ is different every time. I even tried doing the reznae >javac command as root and got the same message, except for the number. reznae >What has me the most confused is I got it to work once. But then it hasn't reznae >worked again. reznae > reznae >I found that these two environment variables are needed - I'm really not reznae >sure about the CLASSPATH though. What documentation there is says that reznae >it's a variable that's needed, but says nothing about what to put into reznae >it. reznae >CLASSPATH=.:/usr/lib/jdk1.1/lib reznae >FLAGS_CLASS=-green reznae > reznae >HAL9000:~/cs136$ dpkg -l jdk* reznae >Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge reznae >| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed reznae >|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) reznae >||/ Name Version Description reznae >+++-==============-==============-============================================ reznae >un jdk-shared <none> (no description available) reznae >un jdk-static <none> (no description available) reznae >ii jdk1.1 1.1.7v3-2 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) - Runtime o reznae >ii jdk1.1-dev 1.1.7v3-2 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) reznae >ii jdk1.1-native 1.1.7v3-2 JDK 1.1.x Runtime - native threads extension reznae >ii jdk1.1-native- 1.1.7v3-2 JDK 1.1.x - native threads extensions reznae >un jdk1.1-runtime <none> (no description available) reznae > reznae >Apparently the jdk-runtime package has been replaced by jdk1.1 What about reznae >the jdk-shared and jdk-static packages? I couldn't find any mention of either reznae >one in the Packages files in /var/state/apt/lists so I'm presuming they too reznae >have been superceeded. reznae > reznae >My system here is potato - did an apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade two reznae >or three days ago. I'm runing kernel 2.2.13 Does anyone have any reznae >suggestions? reznae >-- reznae >Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" reznae >ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" reznae >'91 GS500E | reznae >Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. reznae > reznae > reznae >-- reznae >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null reznae > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 1:59pm up 147 days, 2:00, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.30, 0.29