Java 7 in Solaris 9

Michael Weis

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Jun 11, 2015, 12:24:37 PM6/11/15

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Hi all,

I receive this error message:

# /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/bin/java -version
Error: dl failure on line 863
Error: failed
/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so, because
ld.so.1: java: fatal: relocation error: file
/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so: symbol
sema_timedwait: referenced symbol not found

Is there any chance for Java 1.7 working in a Solaris 9 branded zone?

And no, it's not possible to update to a newer Solaris release in this case.

Thank you for ideas,

regards,

Michael

Casper H.S. Dik

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Jun 11, 2015, 12:53:35 PM6/11/15

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Michael Weis <crawf...@gmx.de> writes:

>Hi all,

>I receive this error message:

># /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/bin/java -version
>Error: dl failure on line 863
>Error: failed
>/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so, because
>ld.so.1: java: fatal: relocation error: file
>/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so: symbol
>sema_timedwait: referenced symbol not found

That function was added in Solaris 10; is the newer version
of Java supported on Solaris 9?

>Is there any chance for Java 1.7 working in a Solaris 9 branded zone?

Likely not as Solaris 9 seems to have dropped of Solaris.

>And no, it's not possible to update to a newer Solaris release in this case.

You want to update some software on a no longer supported release
(Solaris 9) but you can't run the software on Solaris 10 natively
or Solaris 11?

May I ask why?

Casper

Michael Weis

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Jun 14, 2015, 10:22:10 AM6/14/15

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Hi Casper,

shure you may :-)

As a freelancer amongst others I support Sparc Systems for a software
developing company. They have a customer who has Solaris 9, 10 & 11 in a
productive environment (end-customer from my point of view). So the
company I work for has to develop & test their software (Oracle-DB
based) at Solaris 9, 10 & 11.
The end-customer decided to use Java7 as runtime environment. Currently
I'm not sure if they in fact use it with Solaris 9, because it's not
supported by Oracle and never was by Sun.

My suggestion is not to use Solaris 9 any longer, but that's not my &
not my customers decision.

At this point I tend to say that's not possible using Java7 in Solaris
9. If the end-customer in fact uses this combination, maybe they can
tell me how to do. I think they can't.

In the meantime I'm trying, reading and now asking here if someone has
an idea.

Kind regards,

Michael

Casper H.S. Dik

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Jun 15, 2015, 3:59:21 AM6/15/15

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Michael Weis <crawf...@gmx.de> writes:

>My suggestion is not to use Solaris 9 any longer, but that's not my &
>not my customers decision.

I see. I'm not sure what keeps them from upgrading to at least
Solaris 10.

Anyway, I can't help running Java 7 on Solaris 9.

Casper

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Jun 15, 2015, 4:06:31 AM6/15/15

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On 15/06/2015 08:59, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> Michael Weis <crawf...@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> My suggestion is not to use Solaris 9 any longer, but that's not my &
>> not my customers decision.
>
> I see. I'm not sure what keeps them from upgrading to at least
> Solaris 10.

Inertia

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