I'm glad someone asked this. I got the same error on Slackware 7.1, and gave up.
The same error occurs with jdk117v3 also. I ended up porting my code to
j2sdk1.3, which works (albeit sound in the JMF is horribly unstable, but that's
another story).
Larry
Geduldig, Jonas writes:
> Does anyone have java118 working on slackware7? I get the same error
> message as a previous email described (see below). Someone suggested
> a missing en_US locale, but I checked mine and it was okay.
>
> BTW, java130 and java116 work fine. And I also tried IBM's java118 which
> produced the same error message as with Blackdown's 118.
>
> I would really like to get java118 working. Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Jonas
>
> > > I'm sorry if this is a silly or always-repeated question, but I
> didn't
> > > find any reference in the faq, and I really need urgently a
> solution.
> > >
> > > The problem is, I'm trying to run jdk-1.1.8-v3-glibc-2.1.3 with
> my
> > > Slackware-7.0 linux distribution (glibc-2.1 based!). It's not
> possible for
> > > my to use newer versions, I need this one.
> [..]
> > > zapl:~$ /opt/jdk118_v3/bin/javac
> > > SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation
> > > stackbase=0xbffff198, stackpointer=0xbffff060
> [..]
> > > *current thread*
> > > java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java)
>
> You are missing the en_US locale, which the VM depends upon for
> character translation. I'm not sure of the best way to install
> it for Slackware (i.e. what package contains it). Typically
> your locales will live in /usr/share/locale/* or /usr/lib/locale/*
> and you need to get en_US/ in there.
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