https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377341 Bug Comments Opened by Mark Wielaard (mark@klomp.org) on 2007-11-12 04:36 EST [reply] Private Description of problem: $ ls -lah /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-11-09 23:34 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar -> /libgcj-4.1.2.jar /libgcj-4.1.2.jar doesn't exist and makes anything using rt.jar to locate core classes (like gcjh) fail with an error like: Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: can't find class file java/lang/Thread.class in java.net.URLClassLoader{urls=[file:/home/mark/src/git/frysk-obj/frysk-imports/tests/./,file:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:./], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}} Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q java-1.5.0-gcj java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-17.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ ls -lah /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar Actual results: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2007-11-09 23:34 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar -> /libgcj-4.1.2.jar Expected results: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 2007-11-12 10:30 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/rt.jar -> /usr/share/java/libgcj-4.1.2.jar Additional info: Seems there is a similar issue for libjawt.so and libjvm.so
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