Re: Licensing questions

2005-01-11 Thread Calvin Austin
eek, I'm going to ask Darin what happened Juergen Kreileder wrote: Marc St-Jean writes: BTW, I went to verify how the "blackdown binary license" would be different from the Sun license with regards to distribution with a distro. However after downloading twice from the ftp.tux.org mirror the LIC

Re: Licensing questions

2005-01-07 Thread Calvin Austin
Lots of difficult questions here. Joining the blackdown porting project means you use the blackdown binary license etc. If you want to talk to someone at Sun let me know and I'll forward your questions on regards calvin Marc St-Jean wrote: >On Jan 7, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Dominic Duval wrote: > >

Re: javaws / webstart on fedora for amd64

2004-11-17 Thread Calvin Austin
I believe you are seeing a generic javaws bug that is unfortunately a change in behavior of glibc/waitid Juergen take a look at 6188963, Hui believes you can just switch in waitpid instead of waitid. btw the 1.5 32bit JVM should also work on your machine too, but the javaws has the same issue

Re: Crashes/Hangs on Mandrake 10.0

2004-09-22 Thread Calvin Austin
I found a couple of bug reports you have logged before, most have been filed to the netbeans group which is why we've probably never seen them. I don't use Mandrake myself, I did run your program on 1.4.2 (as 2.1) and saved and it loaded fine. I'm sure debian is fine too. If the machine is rea

Re: Help on JVM hang

2004-06-11 Thread Calvin Austin
Does it ever resume. 1.5beta2 has more diagnostics in it and you may be able to even attached with jdb (hey tim :*) Without seeing the other threads its difficult to see what is happening, however there was a bug fix in 1.5 to stop the cache growing out of control. A quick test with 1.5 would h

Java on Linux chat on JDC October 15th

2002-10-08 Thread Calvin Austin
Join me, Hui Huang and the one and only, Juergen Kreileder of blackdown.org in a JDC chat next week! see below for more details http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/community/chat/ regards calvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: JVM and threads

2002-09-03 Thread Calvin Austin
Yup native threads doing blocking IO on linux is expensive. Things start looking progressively ugly from 50 connections upwards. If you move to NIO you will see a significant improvement in both stability/predictability and performance. What would make it easier for you to try the multiplexing

Re: Is there still anyone from the blackdown project active on this list ?

2002-07-24 Thread Calvin Austin
No news is good news. Juergen has got some 1.4.1 beta builds in testing regards calvin Vincent Touquet wrote: > > Is there still anyone from the blackdown project active on this list ? :) > > Only mails I've been getting so far , is "I'm away on holiday" > and unsubscription emails :/ > > W

Re: HELP : Stable JVM for running JBoss on Redhat 7.2 (smp) ??

2002-05-23 Thread Calvin Austin
There is a very important patch to Redhat 7.2 SMP kernel, you need the 2.4.9-31smp patch available under 'security patches' from redhat.com Unpatched redhat 7.2 SMP will create duplicate process ids. That is not good! The bug is also fixed in 2.4.18 kernels. Hui Huang tracked this down a while

Re: Java plugins for Mozilla in Linux

2002-04-04 Thread Calvin Austin
I recently used JRE 1.4 with netscape 6.2.2 and that worked you can do the same for mozilla too. Download JRE 1.4 if you can (1.3.1 does work too but I've seen a couple of annoying glitches with the default plugin they have) Then do the following, if libjavaplugin_oji does not exist don't worry.

Re: Error running Blackdown j2sdk-1.3.1-02a-FCS-linux-i386 'java -version'

2002-03-21 Thread Calvin Austin
try one of the old gotchas ulimit -s 2048 > Barnet Wagman wrote: > > With Blackdown j2sdk-1.3.1-02a-FCS-linux-i386, I get the following when I > run 'java -version' > > java version "1.3.1" > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build > Blackdown-1.3.1-02a-FCS) >

Re: difference between Blackdown's JVM and Sun's?

2002-01-24 Thread Calvin Austin
blackdown has additional ppc/sparc/arm ports. JMF, java3d , customized java web start, debian installer. java comm api. Also Blackdown give the opportunity for developers to contribute to the java on linux product. ie if you find a bug or want to change something its going to be easier to get the

Re: Segmentation fault when trying to run Weblogic

2001-11-08 Thread Calvin Austin
Redhat 7.0? If so either upgrade or get the rh 7.0 patches from their website. Some large apps also need the C stack size to be reset ulimit -s 2048 which is fixed in later glibc builds regards calvin Kunal Bisla wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to run weblogic600sp2_linux.bin in my > Linux7.0 > I

Re: Problems with "java" executable

2001-10-23 Thread Calvin Austin
It could be http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4422213.html which is a generic hotspot bug but was found on linux :*( regards calvin Alexandre Saur wrote: > > Yes, I know... RedHat 7.0 is kind of old now... > but my glibc is the latest for redhat 7.0 as far as I know...

Re: stack overflow

2001-08-21 Thread Calvin Austin
> Hmm .. would increasing the heap size affect the stack size ? It is very possible you will see a stack overflow if the heap is exhausted. The options to change the stack in non-hotspot vms were -ss for c stack -oss for Java stacks. These are for each thread and are not configurable in the hotsp

Re: stack overflow

2001-08-21 Thread Calvin Austin
I would recommend using JDK 1.3.1, it is way faster than 1.2.2. Now one of two things may have occured, either you really got a stack overflow or stack overflow was incorrectly detected. If its the first case try giving java some more heap space to use (java -Xmx128m ). If its the second case you

Re: Cannot convert string "xxxx" to type VirtualBinding

2001-07-30 Thread Calvin Austin
I replied to this earlier but it didn't show up to the list. (I've resubscribed myself now) you can remove the messages by running xprop -remove _MOTIF_DEFAULT_BINDINGS which was set by another motif program regards calvin "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: Very odd exception

2001-05-16 Thread Calvin Austin
Yes this is a new bug (4458946), its caused by the daemon randomizer thread not shutting down in time. The engineer who has looked into has this workaround for now add Runtime.getRuntime().exit(0); to the end of main regards calvin Timothy Reaves wrote: > > Hello. > > When I

Re: Running j2sdk-1_3_0_02 on Redhat7.1

2001-05-02 Thread Calvin Austin
I would recommend trying 1.3.1 not only does it have the fix to the wrapper script below (/usr/bin/cut went to /bin/cut) But it has many hotspot fixes too. If you fix the cut stuff you will also need to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 for 1.3.0 releases regards calvin Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh wrote:

Re: java sound install

2001-04-27 Thread Calvin Austin
I've seen a couple instances of this, almost all are attributed to the sound card driver. If you have sb live cards then there is an open source driver from opensouce.creative.com (driver called emu10k). Otherwise check with the vendors site, until ALSA is complete, opensound.com have probably

Re: RedHat 7.1 (upgrade) and Sun JDK1.3.0_02 (i386)

2001-04-24 Thread Calvin Austin
The 1.3.1 release has the 'cut' fix, the next release of 1.3.1 (rc2) has the final floating stack code that was needed. Alternatively set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 when running Java and it will use the backward compatability libraries with Redhat 7,1 , this will work for 1.3.0_002 as well, There

Re: unexpected exception detected

2001-04-16 Thread Calvin Austin
I know where the first part of the message came from current locale is not supported in X11, locale is set to C X locale modifiers are not supported, using default The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale is missing files that it needs. even if you are displaying remote X to another DISPLAY yo

Re: JSDK 1.4 / Merlin for i386 ?

2001-04-12 Thread Calvin Austin
As of release 1.3.1 all platforms which includes Linux are released on the same day. I know that only covers x86 but I would guess the ppc version should be in the same ballpark The 1.3.1 release is currently in rc form and has better debug support and is faster again than 1.3.0 regards calvin

Re: memory problem of jobjectArray

2001-04-11 Thread Calvin Austin
Read the next section in the link I posted yesterday. there is a section on memory issues with JNI, global references etc http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/JDCBook/jniref.html regards calvin Zhihong Pan wrote: > > Hi, > > When I call my c function in java, I

Re: NewObjectArray

2001-04-10 Thread Calvin Austin
The last element is the initializer for the array, I wrote an example of its use here http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/JDCBook/jnistring.html regards calvin Zhihong Pan wrote: > > Could anybody teach me hot to use NewObjectArray in jni ? > jarray NewObjectArra

Re: error on calling c function in java

2001-04-09 Thread Calvin Austin
If this is a JNI program you may get more verification that it was inside your own code or from the VM from running with -classic . The new 1.3.1 release will have better hotspot diagnostics than the cryptic message below. If you do 'man ascii' you can read off the file name below, (its in hex) t

Re: System.exit() value not being observed with 1.3.0 FCS?

2001-02-12 Thread Calvin Austin
I've seen this before on redhat 7.0 and it is logged on the redhat bug page as a known bug, currently they had fixed it in 7.1 but have not issued a patch to 7.0 RedHat bug Id: 23758 location: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23758 The classic VM in 1.3 does return the expect

Re: Does jdb work on linux?

2001-02-12 Thread Calvin Austin
There are some 1.3 hotspot related jdb bugs for example the one listed below. If you happen to come across one I would recommend using the classic VM (jdb -classic) until those bugs are fixed regards calvin Joi Ellis wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote: > > > I had more su

Re: building 1.2.2

2000-12-18 Thread Calvin Austin
Redhat 6.1 was used to build the 1.2.2 source, later releases of gcc refused to even compile the assembler files, and you need to remove the comment lines if you are using a later release. One of the challenges with developing on linux is how fast distributions change, the tools all changed in a y

Re: Hot Spot crashes

2000-11-27 Thread Calvin Austin
I've raised the priority of the bug in question, I don't think we have a test case we can reproduce yet with this bug, so if anyone has something then please forward it on regards calvin Joseph Shraibman wrote: > > Vote for: > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4372197.html

Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-21 Thread Calvin Austin
I don't know if anyone else can verify this, but the bug listed below seems to be BSD socket related (ie OS related) I hacked some code together from an online example and included what Java does on the server side , compile cc -o serv serv.c and test with the Broadcaster client from the bug rep

Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-16 Thread Calvin Austin
Hi I've been at comdex this week so I'm just catching up on email, I hope we can resolve redhats distribution issue soon. The fonts problem on linux will improve with the availability of truetype rendering in Xfree, but we should also continue to work on the fonts supplied with java regards cal

Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-11 Thread Calvin Austin
That particular (4102292) bug has been partially fixed in linux 1.3, the window manager decides where the frame will go for the window managers I tried sawfish, kwm etc and it will be placed as the window manager decides and not stuck at 0,0 or worse -x, -y. That fix will also go into the 1.3.1

java developer feedback

2000-11-10 Thread Calvin Austin
We are coming to the end of a great year for Java on linux, hotspot has finally arrived on linux as well as the optional packages JMF and Java 3D, additional chipset ports, plugin support for mozilla and netscape to name a just few achievements. In moving forward I would be very interested in

Re: Vote of 'No Confidence' in SUNs 'guidance' for Java.

2000-10-31 Thread Calvin Austin
Minor corrections, you can legally a) share source with other SCSL licensees for free, for example if you wanted to work in a porting team or use it for your research project. b) you can ship a binary if it passes the TCK test, there are no royalties but the test itself is not free. regards c

Re: Certain keys do not work with Java

2000-10-30 Thread Calvin Austin
Yes this is a horrible side effect of a fix for key press/key release events requested by an ISVs http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4371923.html It is committed to be fixed regards calvin Juergen Kreileder wrote: > > > "Joi" == Joi Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: About the content of the thread dumping

2000-10-09 Thread Calvin Austin
tid is the system thread pointer, you can usually use it to cross reference in the monitor dump, unfortunately the hotspot stack trace isn't as full as the classic trace yet. The nid is the native thread id, on linux this translates to the unix process number. Monitor entry means that it is tryin

Re: Where does all my jdk go ?

2000-09-14 Thread Calvin Austin
I think Nigel had a different question (about JMF) by default it will go into /usr/java, you can run rpm --query -l -p on any rpm file to find out where it will put files. You can install the JDK files to other places (although not advised) by installing as --badreloc --relocate /usr/java=/usr

Re: JDK1.3 on Linux with SMP

2000-08-22 Thread Calvin Austin
Very likely a monitor contention leak bug that has been fixed in hotspot, I think in beta refresh. btw the more details you can give a group like blackdown or Sun etc the better, java -version for example :*) I've been using SMP for a while, the only issue I've seen on linux is that the later ve

Re: JDK1.3 on Suse6.4

2000-08-18 Thread Calvin Austin
This is a hotspot problem with SUSE, not a blackdown issue really, but there is a workaround and it will be fixed in the next suse release see the release notes :*) http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/j2sdk13/relnotes-linux.html regards calvin >Hello, > >when I start java using

Re: Java and window managers

2000-07-28 Thread Calvin Austin
There used to be issues with some window managers with the Sun JDK, but Blackdown and ourselves have fixed most if not all the issues. In the next release of the 1.3 Sun JDK most of the window managers we have tried sawfish, enlightenment, fvwm, kwm, twm behave correctly (if not log a bug) regar

Re: Debugging Java on Linux with JDK1.2.2

2000-07-19 Thread Calvin Austin
For jdb the command use should work for most class files I just tried 1.2.2 fcs and it worked ok (perhaps run strace to see why it is not working) I managed to use oldjdb with 1.3 and use worked ok there for simple .class files too For gdb you'll need to handle SIGUSR1 (the following works for

Re: Process communication jdk1.3

2000-06-23 Thread Calvin Austin
>This might not be a blackdown problem, but I need help now, and the IBM >newsgroups seems down? and sun, well I have never gotten a response from >them. Well there are apparently 2.5 million developers out there! Don't forget that Java 2 has a finer granularity security manager. I would sugge

Re: Anyone using blackdown jdk on SMP linux?

2000-06-23 Thread Calvin Austin
Submit it as a bug and/or send us the short example, it could very well be another linuxthreads bug that we will have to work around or someone has already discovered. Java is one of the best stress tests of the linux threads library :*) regards calvin > >I've been unable to get blackdown na

Re: Sun 1.3 src.jar file question

2000-06-04 Thread Calvin Austin
There is a known bug list where this is listed, in a nutshell src.jar is actually a gzip archive, run unzip or gunzip to extract the files from that archive for this release. regards calvin >Did anyone else get an exception when unjaring this file? > > >--

Re: Odd seg fault

2000-04-11 Thread Calvin Austin
Yes it is a bug with the way that the port handles locales, basically it tries to interogate the locale data for en, which is probably incomplete It was doing this to enable japanese support. The workaround is to set LANG to POSIX or a full locale, also the blackdown port does not have this bug .

Re: running JAVA on embeded linux

2000-03-23 Thread Calvin Austin
Depending on what type of embedding you are doing, but you may find J2SE works. I don't know of the release date of J2ME on linux so I've forwarded your email to those engineers regards calvin >Hi > >I try to embed Linux in a device and I also want to run java (including >GUI). How many librari

Re: Building JDK 1.2.2 on Linux ?

1999-08-27 Thread Calvin Austin
One suggestion, not sure if this will work. I have created a patch file to move from jdk1.2.1 to jdk1.2.2 on the scsl site. You may be able to reverse patch that jdk1.2.2 release to create a jdk1.2.1 release which should work with the blackdown diffs. Although there are over 1000 fixes I am hopi

Re: [off-topic] stop bashing!

1999-06-13 Thread Calvin Austin
Louis-David I will show you the code! Hop on over to http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/java2cs you can get all the Java 2 source code for no fee. Then make a trip to blackdown.org, you can get Java 2 releases. blackdown has the diffs that I will be linking to make a Java 2 linux s