glibc 2.34 problems with Java SE 8

[Florian Weimer]

* Michael Brunnbauer:

> after upgrading to glibc 2.34, I have trouble with Oracle Java:
>
> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
> #
> #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007ffb8ee408bc, pid=5589, tid=0x00007ffb8e4cc640
> #
> # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_301-b09) (build 1.8.0_301-b09)
> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.301-b09 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
> # Problematic frame:
> # V  [libjvm.so+0x89a8bc]  method_comparator(Method*, Method*)+0x1c
>
> Another 4 systems where Java is not used (but MySQL, Python and other stuff)
> seem to be fine. Any idea?

We have been building and testing our OpenJDK 8 builds on glibc 2.34 for
a while.  I haven't heard about such problems.  I've asked internally
just to be sure.

If it doesn't reproduce with OpenJDK, you will likely have to talk to
Oracle.

Thanks,
Florian