I haven't been able to reproduce this issue, but just want to mention that similar ones have been reported where it can be triggered by installing openjdk-8-jre-headless 8 (bug 1396760), or maven toghether with openjdk-8-jdk (bug 1406483).
Looks like it is possible to end up in a situation where it attempts to run the ca-certificates-java postinstall before java has actually been installed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenJDK, which is subscribed to ca-certificates-java in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983302 Title: ca-certificates-java fails to install java cacerts on oneiric Status in ca-certificates-java package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: What I expected: ca-certificates-java 20110912ubuntu3.2 should install /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts What happened: ca-certificates-java did not install /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts, leaving the JVM's symlink dangling. /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/lib/security/cacerts -> /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts This leaves Java applications that depend on CA certs broken, usually with a "the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty". Apt-get install log: root:~# apt-get --reinstall install ca-certificates-java Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/8,434 B of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 171214 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ca-certificates-java 20110912ubuntu3.2 (using .../ca-certificates-java_20110912ubuntu3.2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ca-certificates-java ... Setting up ca-certificates-java (20110912ubuntu3.2) ... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates-java/+bug/983302/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
