[izpack-dev] Fwd: [jira] Assigned: (IZPACK-501) On unix corporate install (with 30000 users), izpack hangs forever

Julien Ponge

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Dec 10, 2009, 1:56:28 AM12/10/09

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From: Julien Ponge (JIRA) <ji...@codehaus.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:52 AM
Subject: [jira] Assigned: (IZPACK-501) On unix corporate install (with 30000 users), izpack hangs forever
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Key:	IZPACK-501
Issue Type:	Bug
Status:	Open
Priority:	Blocker
Assignee:	Julien Ponge
Reporter:	ludovic
Environment:	opensolaris 2009.06 connected to the Sun internal network with a Sun regular user login, not a local user

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On unix corporate install (with 30000 users), izpack hangs forever
Updated: 10/Dec/09 12:52 AM Created: 09/Dec/09 01:41 PM

The following issue has been re-assigned.

Assignee: Julien Ponge

Project:	IzPack
Components:	Installer

Description

On unix corporate install (with 30000 users), izpack hangs forever.

Doing a dump of the threads, we see:

"AWT-EventQueue-0" prio=3 tid=0x08b7b400 nid=0x12 runnable [0xb138d000..0xb138eb60]
java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes0(Native Method)
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes(UnixFileSystem.java:228)
at java.io.File.exists(File.java:733)
at
com.izforge.izpack.util.os.unix.UnixUsers.getUsersWithValidShellsAndExistingHomes(Unknown
Source)
at
com.izforge.izpack.util.os.unix.UnixUsers._getUsersWithValidShellsExistingHomesAndDesktops(Unknown
Source)
at
com.izforge.izpack.util.os.unix.UnixUsers.getUsersWithValidShellsExistingHomesAndDesktops(Unknown
Source)
at com.izforge.izpack.util.os.Unix_Shortcut.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at com.izforge.izpack.util.TargetFactory.makeObject(Unknown Source)
at com.izforge.izpack.panels.ShortcutPanel.panelActivate(Unknown Source)
at com.izforge.izpack.installer.InstallerFrame.switchPanel(Unknown Source)
...

which is on the AWT thread and is taking forever.

Not sure why we need to get this list of all users to do a local installation of a product using ispack. It definitely does not scale and block AWT UI.
See https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=282

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