Originally posted by: pratikch
Hello there,
We are using an AIX box with following os level, Where JRE 6 is installed. This installation is throwing errors even for version check when JIT compiler is not set to NONE.
$ oslevel -s7100-00-02-1041
On this machine jre 1.6 is installed provided from IBM. Now, whenever I run the command (mentioned below), It returns me error.
./java -version
Unhandled exception Type=Segmentation error vmState=0x00000000 J9Generic_Signal_Number=00000004 Signal_Number=0000000b Error_Value=00000000 Signal_Code=00000033 Handler1=09001000A4A86CD0 Handler2=09001000A4A7EA40 R0=0000000000000000 R1=0000000110115910 R2=0000000000000012 R3=000000000000002F R4=0A000000000531B8 R5=0000000000000178 R6=0000000111F7CDD9 R7=0000000000000008 R8=0000000111EA18B0 R9=0000000000000000 R10=00000000000000AD R11=090000001D99908C R12=090000001D67EF10 R13=0000000110120800 R14=0000000111F7CD68 R15=0000000110A78100 R16=00000001113447B0 R17=0000000111ECB118 R18=09001000A4A8AD30 R19=0000000000000004 R20=0000000111ECB158 R21=0A000000000591B0 R22=0A0000000003AE58 R23=0000000000000004 R24=000000000000002F R25=0000000000000000 R26=0000000000000005 R27=000000000000002D R28=0A00000000053168 R29=0000000000000000 R30=0000000110115EA0 R31=0000000111CFC010 IAR=090000001D99908C LR=0000000110B06F3C MSR=A00000000000D032 CTR=090000001D99908C CR=8400822400000005 FPSCR=8200000000000000 XER=0000000582000000 FPR0 0000000c0000000c (f: 12.000000, d: 2.546395e-313) FPR1 41e0000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 2.147484e+09) FPR2 c1e0000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: -2.147484e+09) FPR3 4330000000400000 (f: 4194304.000000, d: 4.503600e+15) FPR4 4530000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 1.934281e+25) FPR5 3fc999999999999a (f: 2576980480.000000, d: 2.000000e-01) FPR6 3fd6666666666666 (f: 1717986944.000000, d: 3.500000e-01) FPR7 3ff0000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 1.000000e+00) FPR8 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR9 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR10 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR11 4030000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 1.600000e+01) FPR12 3fe8000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 7.500000e-01) FPR13 4028000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 1.200000e+01) FPR14 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR15 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR16 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR17 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR18 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR19 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR20 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR21 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR22 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR23 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR24 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR25 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR26 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR27 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR28 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR29 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR30 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) FPR31 0000000000000000 (f: 0.000000, d: 0.000000e+00) Module=/usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9jit24.so Module_base_address=090000001D73F000 Target=2_40_20071121_015015_BHdSMr (AIX 7.1) CPU=ppc64 (4 logical CPUs) (0x200000000 RAM) ----------- Stack Backtrace ----------- /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D6247C8 [0x1D61D000 +0x000077C8] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D625088 [0x1D61D000 +0x00008088] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D623A40 [0x1D61D000 +0x00006A40] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D657C08 [0x1D61D000 +0x0003AC08] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D65B788 [0x1D61D000 +0x0003E788] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D65B664 [0x1D61D000 +0x0003E664] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D65745C [0x1D61D000 +0x0003A45C] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libjclscar_24.so:0x1DF015AC [0x1DEEC000 +0x000155AC] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libjclscar_24.so:0x1DF4C268 [0x1DEEC000 +0x00060268] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libjclscar_24.so:0x1DF4C3CC [0x1DEEC000 +0x000603CC] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D63D570 [0x1D61D000 +0x00020570] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D620E94 [0x1D61D000 +0x00003E94] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D63D34C [0x1D61D000 +0x0002034C] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D6398AC [0x1D61D000 +0x0001C8AC] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9prt24.so:0x1D69E0F4 [0x1D69B000 +0x000030F4] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D638360 [0x1D61D000 +0x0001B360] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/libj9vm24.so:0x1D641BEC [0x1D61D000 +0x00024BEC] /usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/lib/ppc64/j9vm/libjvm.so:0x1D5F8C24 [0x1D5F6000 +0x00002C24] java:0x00002F18 [0x00000000 +0x00002F18] java:0x00001118 [0x00000000 +0x00001118] /usr/lib/libpthreads.a:0x007E8E14 [0x007E5000 +0x00003E14] 0x00000000 --------------------------------------- JVMDUMP006I Processing Dump Event "gpf", detail "" - Please Wait. JVMDUMP007I JVM Requesting System Dump using '/usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/bin/core.20130724.135736.16515288.0001.dmp' JVMDUMP012E Error in System Dump: cannot find core file, check "ulimit -c" is set high enough JVMDUMP007I JVM Requesting Snap Dump using '/usr/openv/java/sdk/jre/bin/Snap.20130724.135736.16515288.0002.trc' JVMDUMP010I Snap Dump written to /tmp/Snap.20130724.135736.16515288.0002.trc JVMDUMP007I JVM Requesting Java Dump using '/tmp/javacore.20130724.135736.16515288.0003.txt' JVMDUMP010I Java Dump written to /tmp/javacore.20130724.135736.16515288.0003.txt JVMDUMP013I Processed Dump Event "gpf", detail "".
After much searching over internet I found to set the option JAVA_COMPILER= NONE. This option worked for me.
$ JAVA_COMPILER=NONE
avisbl4vm4 bin: $ export JAVA_COMPILER
avisbl4vm4 bin: $ ./java -version
java version "1.6.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pap6460-20071123_01)
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc64-64
jvmap6460-20071121_15015 (JIT disabled)
J9VM - 20071121_015015_BHdSMr
GC - 20071031_AA)
JCL - 20071118_01
Now, I am very much afraid to use this option as this will not use the JIT and the machine in problem is a production box. Please help me resolve this problem.
Also, I am bit surprised to see the build number installed(build pap6460-20071123_01) this is pretty old. I've downloaded the JRE package from LINK. is this the right location? Is this JRE not upgraded ? Please note: This is JRE 6 and there is limitation on using JRE 6 only.
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