Hi Uwe,
I will investigate and get back to you.
Rgds,Rory
On 26/05/2017 19:17, Uwe Schindler wrote:
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
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-----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
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http://www.thetaphi.de
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