Hi Rory, In addition to the Ubuntu bug, I started testing Java 9 EA on Windows VMs on our test server (at usual place: https://jenkins.thetaphi.de/job/Lucene-Solr-master-Windows/). Because of the inability to get a ZIP package without Windows Installer, I refuse to update this or maintain this for longer time, so please excuse that I am late. But as Java 9 GA gets close, I installed build 171 on Windows and running the usual tests. But I will not update to any later builds, as this is just too hard to do.
To make this better in the future, please, please, please ask the Windows Maintainers to just provide ZIP or TARGZ images also for Windows (in addition to the Windows Installer). The damn installer makes maintenance hard! There is really no need to have a windows installer to run the JDK for development purposes. This also makes updating the other JDKs hard. As there is no need for browser plugins anymore, why does it need an installer????!??????. Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Uwe Schindler [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 7:37 PM > To: 'Rory O'Donnell' <[email protected]> > Subject: Strange bug with 32 bit JDKs on Ubuntu 16.04 with Linux Kernel 4.8 > > Hi Rory, > > While installing the Jenkins test server on new hardware with latest Ubuntu > 16.04 LTS I figured out that the 32 bit JDKs (all of them, does not matter > which one: Java 7, Java 8, Java 9) fail to run. > I figured out that this is a bug in Linux kernel 4.8 (at least the Ubuntu > one). > With Linux 4.10 it works again. But by default Ubuntu 16.04 long term version > installs with Kernel 4.8. Of course 64bit JDKs work fine. Here is the bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe/+bug/1693854 > > It would be good if you could forwards this to the right people/mailing > lists. It > basically breaks running 32bit Javas on 64bit Ubuntu operating systems with > Linux Kernel 4.8! I am 100% sure this is not Oracle's/OpenJDK's problem, but > maybe you should take place in this Ubuntu issue, as this may break many > people still running 32 bit browsers/32 bit webstarts. > > Uwe > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > Achterdiek 19, D-28357 Bremen > http://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
